Qi Xi and his son left after sitting in the Fourth House for less than two quarters of an hour.
Brother Jiu was still considerate and asked for a carriage, and together with Shu Shu, he sent Qi Xi and his son to the official road.
Qi Xi glanced at his son-in-law and daughter, and said: "The originally scheduled date for the banquet is July 24th, which is only half a month away. If it is determined by then, you can come home. If there is no engagement banquet, it will be changed. It’s time to have dinner with your family..."
Brother Jiu and Shu Shu responded.
Xiao Liuzi took Shu Shu's hand aside and whispered: "Sister, the last time the Crown Princess sent someone to pick up Master Fifteen, he was stopped by Brother Akedun and told him not to go to Tuoyuan Bookstore. The fifteenth master doesn’t even dare to go, but he still wants to go, do we want to help him?”
Shu Shu rubbed his hair and said, "Weigh your weight. If it involves Yuqing Palace, is it easy for you to interfere?"
Xiao Liu had a tangled look on his face and said, "Isn't it time to strike while the iron is hot?"
His thought was relatively simple. He took advantage of Brother Akedun's mistake to reveal the matter and asked the Crown Princess to teach Brother Akedun a lesson so that he would not bully Brother Fifteen again behind his back. .
Shu Shu said: "This is Brother Fifteen's own business. Brother Fifteen must learn to find someone he can truly rely on. He is a prince, not a baby from a relative's family. He needs to be protected by you haha beads in everything." Behind the scenes, too much is not as good as...the knife."
Xiao Liu nodded and said: "I understand. Master Fifteen has to stand up for himself so that he won't be bullied. What he can really rely on is the emperor and the princess..."
Shu Shu said nothing else.
It's a little weird to put the Crown Princess and Kangxi together.
Guilty sin.
It can only be said that raising children in the palace is a mess, with biological mothers, adoptive mothers, and nominal adoptive mothers.
Fortunately, my fifteenth brother is here, so he can just be a favored little brother from now on.
Watching Qi Xi and his son's carriage leave, Brother Jiu couldn't wait any longer. He pulled Shu Shu and hurried to the fourth house.
After sending the girls away, he talked about the relocation and repair of the sacrificial hole.
Shu Shu went to the study room and knew that there were several empty rooms around the corner from the study room.
It turned out to be a place for worshiping holes.
"According to the regulations before the fifteenth brother entered school, the haha beads were selected half a year in advance..."
Shu Shu said.
The emperor's grandson brothers are younger and don't know how lively the companion reading center will be in the end.
Brother Ninth thought for a while and said: "Based on the lessons learned by the Li family, Khan Amma probably won't let the brothers choose their own emperor's grandson to study with. Even if the brothers handed over the list, Khan Amma would have to ask someone to check it... …”
Having said this, he said: "It's not our business anyway, just watch the fun when the time comes..."
Khan Ama acted, and Brother Jiu also saw it.
He can get close to the Tong family, but he is not happy for the princes to get close to their mother's family.
He used to favor the Hesheli family and the Niu Hulu family, but he didn't like the princes to be too close to the Yue family.
"This is not an accurate estimate. It's just me. A person who compares his feelings can roughly understand what Khan Ama is thinking. The brothers next to me are definitely confused."
Brother Nine still couldn't hide his pride.
While the couple was talking, there was movement in the yard.
It was Aunt Bai who came, with two eunuchs behind her, carrying food boxes.
Shu Shu and Brother Jiu both stood up.
Aunt Bai said: "Yesterday the emperor sent a watermelon king. The Queen Mother asked people to cut it and send it around."
Brother Jiu asked: "Is it the one from Daxing Huangzhuang that weighs 21 kilograms?"
After listening to it yesterday, I wanted to go over and take a look, but I missed it.
Bai Jianmei said, "That's right. In addition to sending two teeth to the emperor, the Queen Mother sent her servants to send some to the princess, brother, and Fujin..."
Wait until the food box is opened, a tooth of watermelon.
Compared with ordinary watermelons, it is longer, more than half a foot.
The skin of the melon looks thicker, the flesh is bright red, and inside are the grown black watermelon seeds.
After Aunt Bai left, the couple shared the watermelon.
Sweet is sweet, but warm.
Brother Jiu was a little disappointed and said: "It's better to eat watermelon chilled."
Shu Shu said: "Don't get cold in Futian. This is the way to maintain health."
Brother Jiu raised his eyebrows and said with schadenfreude: "Did you see anything?"
Shu Shu glanced at Brother Jiu.
No mention of Taoyuan Bookstore.
The Queen Mother is a very interesting little old lady, and her behavior in expressing dissatisfaction is also very straightforward.
This watermelon was divided in a circle, and there was no one from the bookstore.
Brother Jiu said, "The prince is too arrogant. When he found out about this yesterday, he should have given Akedun a whip, and then forced Akedun to go to Hechixi to apologize to Xiaowu, and let the matter be forgotten. It has passed, is it a child after all..."
"The third child's 'beating his brother and his younger brother' was a peer, and he lost his title as a county king; Akedun's 'beating his nephew Lingshu' was unscathed and only had two companions. How can such a good thing happen? "
Shu Shu had seen Akedun several times and saw that he was strong and strong, and did not look like he was weak and premature.
What happened to those teenagers?
Shu Shu was slightly curious, then put it behind her head and said, "The official duties of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are sent to the garden for check-in. What about the tenth brother? Do you still have to run away sooner or later?"
Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "There are people from the Six Departments and Jiuqing Yamen arranging shifts here, so there is no need to worry so much."
Shu Shu felt that such a day was not bad, it was much cooler and more comfortable than in the palace.
When the emperor visited the north, they became even more unrestrained.
At noon, He Yuzhu came back.
He took Brother Jiu's post and went to Ma Qi's house.
"I met Madam Ma and asked Lord Ma about his time to take a rest. However, according to Madam Ma, Lord Ma is busy these days and has no time to rest..."
Brother Jiu thought after hearing this: "What should I do with this apprenticeship ceremony? Is it still delayed?"
Speaking of this, he remembered Ma Qi's marriage to his daughter.
It is not impossible if it is delayed until after Ma Qi marries his daughter.
Anyway, it was not his fault, it was Ma Qi who was busy.
The result was the opposite.
He had sent his confidant eunuchs to Ma Qi's house to deliver greeting cards. Ma Qi was always cautious, how could he really be waiting at home in such a grand manner?
After receiving the letter from the housekeeper at home, Ma Qi went to check in at the House of Internal Affairs in the garden, but he was a step too late. Brother Ninth had already returned to the Fourth House.
He went outside Sisuo to ask for an audience.
As a result, not only Jiu Age, but also Jiu Fujin came out to greet him.
Ma Qi couldn't help being flattered.
He was about to bow in greeting, but Brother Jiu supported him and said, "Teacher, why are you so polite?"
Ma Qi looked in a daze, thinking that he had failed to obey.
Brother Jiu has already said: "This apprenticeship ceremony is also an important event and should not be taken lightly. Master... Well, I asked someone to check the date. It should be at the end of the month. Otherwise, let the Qintian Supervisor choose auspicious days..."
It seems that the good days for marriage are ahead of him, so he doesn't need to add any makeup when he becomes a disciple after Fuchagege leaves.
As for what I said about adding makeup before, it was just a joke.
"This is about Master Jiu."
Ma Qi was still confused.
Brother Jiu said, "It was Khan Amma who pointed it out, saying that the teacher is mature and knows etiquette, and my rules are not enough. If I have to learn "Zhou Rites" again, you are the one who was ordered by Khan Amma..."
This metaphor was neither fish nor fowl, but Ma Qi also understood the meaning.
Don't want to take over.
The emperor can't teach the prince how to behave, so he can teach it well by being a prince tutor?
He was neither humble nor arrogant: "I just heard about this."
The last sentence "I'm afraid I'm not up to the task" came to my lips and I swallowed it back.
Now that he is a famous person in front of the emperor, he understands more clearly that the emperor is now accustomed to being arbitrary and does not tolerate disobedience.
Even so, he also wanted to delay and beat the drum in front of the emperor to see what the emperor asked him, the prince's master, to do.
He said: "Don't be in a hurry, then just listen to Master Jiu and wait until the Qintian Supervisor chooses the right time."
When he left, he seemed calm, but Brother Jiu suddenly felt that he was "running away".
Brother Jiu was dissatisfied and said to Shu Shu: "Are you so picky?"
Shu Shu said: "I've never heard that Master Ma Qi has accepted students, so I guess I'm feeling panicked."
*
A few days passed by in a hurry.
Xiaoliu wanted to stay at home longer, but Qi Xi did not indulge him.
Seeing that Brother Baofu was well, he followed Norob and sent the two children back to the West Garden.
Even so, the fifteenth elder brother's chaperone was also vacant, so he was replaced by a son of the clan, the son of the clan general Deyi, who was Qingru's brother and the nephew of the crown prince.
Xiao Liu was overjoyed, they were familiar with each other.
There is another person who was born in Baoyi, a descendant of the Wuya family and the cousin of the fourth elder brother.
Seeing this, Brother Ninth couldn't help but slandered Shu Shu: "What does Khan Ama mean? After all, Xiao Shiwu's adoptive mother is still the Empress Dowager De."
Shu Shu said: "The emperor is kind and loves his little son."
No matter how attached the fifteenth elder brother is to the Crown Princess, he is still an uncle and sister-in-law, not an adopted mother and son.
An elder brother born from a concubine like the fifteenth elder brother still needs a high-status adoptive mother so that others would not dare to look down upon him.
This is true for the fifteenth elder brother, and the same is true for the seventeenth elder brother.
Brother Ninth was silent and did not speak.
Is this a sign of old age?
Are your hearts softening first?
In the early years, I didn't have any fatherly feelings towards my seventh and twelfth elder brother.
The days passed in an orderly manner, and Shu Shu also played several card games.
The sisters-in-law took advantage of the brothers to go to the Yamen, so they took advantage of the situation and played some cards.
Brand quality is like character.
Sifujin is embarrassed to win. Even if he draws several tailwind cards in succession, it does not mean that every hand will be a draw.
There were too many silver coins in front of her, so she would deliberately lose two to make everyone happy, very much like a eldest sister-in-law.
Wu Fujin is thoughtful and can remember cards, but he doesn't like to show off. He spends more time with Shu Shu and Shi Fujin.
Shi Fujin loves to have fun and is addicted to food.
What about recording cards and collecting cards? It’s nothing at all, and I’ve been defeated repeatedly.
Shu Shu also memorizes cards like Wu Fu Jin.
I feel like playing cards is very hard.
I won by accident.
The sisters-in-law played cards, and Shifujin lit up the cannons.
Shu Shu was the host, and he was too embarrassed to win against three companies, so he had to play cards, which was really a waste of his brain.
Therefore, the card game between the sisters-in-law lasted for three days and then broke up.
That pair of cow bone mahjong was given directly to Shi Fujin.
