Dressed as Su Peisheng

March of the 38th year of Kangxi

The cock crowed three times, and the Fourth Master's Mansion began to make noise.

Mrs. Lu followed her roommates to get up in the dark, and did a rough wash.

There are several piles of clothes in the house, which should be washed when it is bright and dried in the morning when the sun is not strong, so that they will be dry and will not fade.

"Hey, from the old Lu family, you didn't go back last night," Mrs. He, who came out from the opposite door, greeted Mrs. Lu.

"No," Mrs. Lu fetched a bucket of water and poured it into a large wooden basin, "Yesterday, four sets of gauze tents were brought into the west side courtyard, and they were starched until midnight. Going back would be a waste of time."

"That's right." Mrs. He rinsed his mouth, "Our Lord Belle has just built a mansion, and there are too many things going on in the mansion, so it will be all right after a while."

"What nonsense are you talking about early in the morning, hurry up and go to work quickly!" An old nanny with a round bun yelled towards the well, Mrs. He winked at Mrs. Lu, and walked away with the washbasin in hand.

The mother-in-law of the rough envoy and the servant girls who are on the errand live in the North Courtyard on the East Road, under the care of a mother Ye, and the clothes washing workshop in the mansion is also located here.These servants were all born in Xin Zheku's coats, and they were assigned to the Si Ye's Mansion along with the neiguan collar Wushi, and they belonged to the bottom of the inner three banners.

West Hospital

Li started from the bed, and Xi'er lifted the bed curtain, "My lord, you don't look energetic, did you not sleep well last night?"

Mrs. Li sighed, "The people from my mother's house should be here today, and I don't know how I will arrange it. I begged my master to insert someone into the mansion, and Fujin was quite critical. What is going on in my heart?" I can't stand it all."

Xi'er waited on Mrs. Li to change her pajamas, and comforted her, "Don't worry, young master, the fourth master has promised you, Zuo can't be driven out again."

Mrs. Li shook her head and sat in front of the vanity mirror, "It's impossible to drive out. I'm afraid that my natal brothers won't be able to do the work of slaves. Now there is no shortage of servants in our house. The three-flag coats distributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs are I can’t use it. I was at Fujin before, and I saw that Lao Ge, who was wearing a manchu coat, and Ma Lian, who was wearing a Han man’s coat, were not easy to get along with. The good errands in the mansion were divided among them. .When my brother and the others come, they can’t do the same job as the gang of Xinzheku led by Wushi, can they?”

"No, our family is a decent family of the Han Army Banner, and you are the fourth elder brother's Gege, and there is little Gege here. Our mother's family will never compete with those coats from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for errands. "Xi'er comforted Li Shi as she smoothed her hair into a bun.

Mrs. Li sighed again, pursed her lips, "I hope so..."

East Garden Courtyard

The fourth elder brother sat up, looked at the gradually brightening sky outside the window, and turned to pat the person in the bed.

"Hmm..." Su Wei murmured, waved his hands indiscriminately, and thumped into the bed, wrapping his head in the quilt, as if he had fallen asleep.

The fourth elder brother raised his eyebrows, lifted the quilt from behind, and patted someone's buttocks, "You are really getting lazy, even if you don't have to go to court these days, you can't sleep until the sun is up, get up quickly. "

"I don't..." Su Wei rubbed his hands into the cup again, pressing his ears under the pillow in a noisy manner.

"Dare you say no?" The fourth elder brother pulled down Su Wei's pillow domineeringly, and reached into Su Wei's clothes with slightly cool hands.

"Ah! Cool!" Su Wei struggled to turn around, pushed the fourth elder brother's hand out, and yelled at the fourth elder brother with a pair of red eyes, "You don't have any sympathy at all, I'm going to be exhausted these days, How about sleeping a little longer?"

The fourth elder brother was stunned, "You still have the nerve to say that the matter of moving the house has been divided between Lao Ge and Ma Lian. You didn't care about anything, but just waited on me, why are you tired?"

"I'm just tired," Su Wei kicked the fourth elder brother unreasonably, "Who told you to use so many slaves? I think I'm crazy to recognize people these days, don't you know that I have face blindness?"

"What is prosopagnosia?" Brother Si blinked and held Su Wei's foot on his waist.

"Don't change the subject. You didn't say there were so many people before. This time, Guangyueyin will scare people to death!" Su Wei hugged the pillow and shouted.

After all, he was still worried about money, so the fourth elder brother stroked his forehead helplessly, "Isn't there so many farmers, I will take you around in a few days and let you calculate the income, okay? There is the settling allowance rewarded by Huang Ama."

"Not enough, not enough," Su Wei frantically hugged the pillow, flipping from side to side on the bed, "In the future, you need to socialize, communicate, expand your influence, and buy people's hearts. This money is definitely not enough!"

"Okay, okay," the fourth elder brother hugged him unbearably, and dragged him off the bed, "I have a way to deal with it. I guarantee that the money will only increase and not be insufficient."

Lao Ge led two small attendants and came to the small courtyard of the East Garden with food boxes.

He is the Manchurian wrapping assistant collar assigned to the fourth elder brother by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Although his status is not as high as that of the Outer Eight Banners assistant collar, he is considered the first among the wrapping slaves.It's just that their Lord Baylor is really a master who is not easy to get close to. They have been in the fourth master's mansion for a month, and the fourth elder brother has never been able to get close to him.

Just like this small courtyard in the East Garden, for the slaves in the mansion, it is like a holy place, not only because the fourth elder brother rests here almost every night, but also because the inner eunuchs most trusted by Lord Baylor live here.

Su Peisheng, Eunuch Su, is the only servant in this mansion who owns a courtyard, and it is also the backyard of the East Courtyard. It can be said that he is very close to the fourth elder brother. You must know that the three of them were all assigned a courtyard. Small single house.For this Eunuch Su, Lao Ge's deepest impression is the scene of opening the door for the fourth elder brother on the day he moved the house.Afterwards, he heard people say that when the fourth elder brother moved from Chengqian Palace to elder brother's house, this father-in-law also opened the door.

In addition to Su Peisheng, there are three eunuchs living in the East Garden courtyard. One is Eunuch Su's apprentice, Xiao Yingzi, who lives in the backyard's ear room and serves Eunuch Su nearby.The remaining two are the front yard managers who used to be No. [-], one is Zhang Qilin, a sixth-rank father-in-law, and the other is Zhang Bao, who has no rank but is highly valued by the fourth elder brother.

The remaining internal eunuchs of the Baylor Mansion live in the first row of rooms on the East Road, and they only work in the East Courtyard for the time being, but the treatment they enjoy is much better than that of the coated slaves.Lao Ge found out from the palace that the eunuchs brought to the mansion were all old eunuchs who had followed the fourth elder brother for more than ten years, and they were deeply trusted by the fourth elder brother.After getting along for a few days, Lao Ge also noticed that these internal eunuchs were unusual, and it was really difficult to get something out of them.

"Sir!" Zhang Bao stood at the door and cupped his hands at Lao Ge who was coming from afar.

"Don't dare, dare not," Old Ge quickly replied. After the fourth elder brother moved to the mansion, he and Ma Lian will be in charge of all the affairs in the mansion. Is it? The slave has brought food to the master."

Zhang Bao stretched out his hand to take the food box, "In the future, we don't need to be so troublesome, we can just come for the fourth elder brother to provide food."

"No trouble, no trouble," Lao Ge bowed and said, "It's the same for slaves to send people to the door."

Zhang Bao nodded casually, "Please go back, Chief Manager, if you have something to do, please report it after noon."

"Yes, yes," Lao Ge repeatedly nodded, turned around with his little attendant, and glanced at the yard before leaving. A father-in-law just stepped out of the door on the corridor of the main hall, and was stretching vigorously.

Zhengdao Sijinyuan

Fujin ate breakfast and sat on the couch drinking tea.

Shi Yao walked into the room holding the ledger, "Fujin, the gauze curtains in the West Hospital are all done, and Song Gege said that Da Gege's box of clothes got damp, so I need to add some new ones."

Fujin nodded, "Children's food and clothing are important matters, not to mention that Mo Yaqi is the eldest daughter in our mansion. However, you can't just do it for Da Gege, and Ilha will also add a few clothes."

"Yes," Shiyao nodded, handed the account book to Fujin, and poured tea for Fujin, "Master, I heard that Li Gege's natal family will arrive today."

Fujin flipped through the ledger, her eyes were indifferent, "If she wants her family to be a slave, then let her do it, the master has agreed, what else can I say."

Shi Yao curled her lips, "That's right, this small family will be a slave in our mansion. Unlike our Master Jiahui, who has been my elder brother's haha ​​bead since childhood, now it is serious to follow the master Errand."

Fujin looked at Shiyao, frowned slightly, "Jiahui is still young and can't do any big things, now that Fourth Master has his own subordinates, haha ​​beads have to rely on their own abilities."

Si Ye's Study Room

Zhang Bao led the two young men into the room, and the fourth elder brother sat behind the desk, holding a book in his hand.

"Slaves Fu Nai and Chang Lai send their greetings to the master!"

The fourth elder brother put down the book, the corner of his mouth slightly raised, "Get up."

The two got up and stood respectfully in the room with their hands down.

The fourth elder brother leaned on the back of the chair, with a calm voice, "I just got the reward, and I am not familiar with the people with white flags. Fortunately, you two were named under the name of the master after the two famous families. From now on, the two of you will take the place of the master. Walk among the leaders you got, and look for some available people."

"Yes," both of them clasped their hands together, and Chang Lai said, "Master, rest assured, the two of us have been under the third commander of the Xiangbai Banner for many years, and we are quite familiar with the three Manchurian assistant leaders under your jurisdiction. It's just that there is still some work to be done on the Hanjun flag."

The fourth elder brother nodded, "Don't worry about the Han army flag. For what we need now, I need some capable strategists around me. In addition, there are only ten guards sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in this courtyard, and the guards in the inner courtyard are still weak. .”

Fu Nai nodded, "Master, don't worry, this slave knows a lot of people who are skilled in martial arts, and I will make a list for the master to choose."

"Okay," the fourth elder brother looked relieved, "As long as you do things with your heart, I will not treat you badly, Zhang Bao!"

"Hey," Zhang Bao turned around and brought out a tray from the inner room, on which were placed two ingots of golden ingots. "My lords, this is a reward from the master."

"Thank you for the reward, master," the two leaned over to thank each other, and each took away a 50 taels of gold ingot.

After sending Fu Nai and Chang Lai away, Zhang Bao turned back to the room. The fourth elder brother was resting his brows in thought. After a while, he raised his head and asked, "Where is Su Peisheng now?"

"Li Gege's natal family is here, and Mrs. Su was invited by Lao Ge to arrange it in the row room. It should not be finished at this time," Zhang Bao replied leaning over.

The fourth elder brother nodded, "Alright, let him worry about it. After being lazy for so many years, it's time to move around."

Zhang Baoyang raised the corners of his mouth, "Eunuch Su is the best at making the best use of everything. I'm afraid the master's thoughts won't bother him. When everyone gets used to it, Eunuch Su will let him go. But for today's matter, Eunuch Su has to deal with it." Be angry for a while."

"What's the matter today?" Brother Si frowned. Recently, Su Wei's temper has grown so bad that he didn't dare to provoke him too much.

Zhang Bao smiled, "Eunuch Su is very strict with money recently, he has to ask the price again and again to buy every dish in the house, the master's meeting is a reward of a hundred taels of gold, which is equivalent to 1000 taels of silver."

The fourth elder brother was stunned for a while, "No, it's all right, sir, this is a serious matter..."

Forbidden City Yanxi Palace

Concubine Hui took the booklet from the emperor, unfolded it, and said, "Guo Luoluo, the granddaughter of Prince An?"

"That's right," the emperor picked up the tea bowl and scraped off the tea dust, "Yue Le committed the crime of unfilial piety by Nuoni and was chased down to the county king. Now this can be regarded as appeasement for their family."

Concubine Hui forced a smile, "Even if he is demoted to the county king, Guo Luoluo's identity is still there, which is comparable to the old ten's Borzigit family in Prince Fujin."

The emperor took a sip of his tea, "It's okay, the eighth child treats people sincerely, and the ninth and tenth are all thinking of him. No matter how good Fujin's family background is, he can't surpass his brothers."

Concubine Hui nodded slightly, her eyes gradually losing warmth.

Siye Mansion in the evening

East courtyard

"100 taels!" Su Wei's eyes widened, and his voice suddenly rose.

The fourth elder brother leaned on one side of the couch, tilted his ears, "Chang Lai is the son of General Ma Qi of Zhen'an, if there are few rewards, can he take a fancy to him?"

"Even the son of Marshal Zhen'an is also your slave." Su Wei squeezed his buttocks to the feet of the fourth elder brother, "He hasn't even finished his work, and you reward so much, what if it goes wrong? ?”

"How could it be messed up? Look at it," the fourth elder brother handed Su Wei the roster in his hand. "These two are smart people. In fact, the roster was prepared early in the morning."

Su Wei flipped through the pages casually, and said very dissatisfied, "Why don't you just list a few names, I'll check later, and I can list them too."

The fourth elder brother smiled helplessly, "It's not a matter of a few names, they are recommending talents to the master. Look at the background of this family, what errands he has worked, and what he will do is clearly written. Now everything in the Eight Banners belongs to each banner. They are all in charge. The assistants assigned to the princes Baylor are nothing more than titles of ownership. The only usefulness is the talents in the Han army banner. The Lord recruited them to walk under the door so that they can act in the court in the future. ah."

Su Wei pursed his lips, turned a few more pages, and muttered, "Who are the talents, I don't remember any famous officials from the Yongzheng Dynasty..."

The fourth elder brother raised his eyebrows, "What day?"

"Master, Eunuch Su," Zhang Qilin hurried into the house, "Li Gege's natal family and Ma Lian and the others are quarreling!"

The author has something to say: Don’t be surprised why Xiao Suzi suddenly became stingy. In the past, in the palace, food and drink expenses were all provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there was basically nowhere to spend money except for rewards every year.After moving to the mansion, one yard, hundreds of slaves, eat dozens of taels for a meal, it's too much a test for Eunuch Su who worked hard to make money in his previous life! ! !

Please distinguish the inner three banners from the outer eight banners.The Inner Three Banners belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, independent of the Eight Banners, and belong to the royal family's domestic slaves.

When the fourth elder brother got the seal, he got one of the management collars of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including the Manchurian coat led by Lao Ge, the Han Chinese coat led by Ma Lian, and the Xinzheku coat led by Wushi.They are all slaves who serve people and do chores in Baylor's mansion, and the disputes between slaves in the future will not be just fights between eunuchs.Of course, this weight won't be too big, I want to focus on Nine Dragons seizing the heir, and make a fist!

Fu Nai, Chang Lai, and the others were among the eight banner leaders who were awarded by the fourth elder brother. The fourth elder brother was granted the title of Xiangbai Banner, and won three assistant leaders under the third commander of the Manchurian Xiangbai Banner, and one assistant leader under the Xiangbai Banner of the Han Army. , and another leader of the Mongolian Army Banner.The main figures in the Si Ye's party are the old people of the Si Ye's mansion, and the so-called old men of the mansion refer to these people from the Eight Banners who were entrusted to the fourth elder brother.They are the disciples of the fourth elder brother, who are responsible for making plans and helping the fourth elder brother to do things outside. They are completely different from the coated slaves of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.