This night, the fourth master undoubtedly stayed in the west courtyard again, causing other women to overturn the vinegar altar again, and Wang Lanqi regretted not trying to find a way to go to Erfu's room to be Gege, if she was insistent enough, then she could be pampered for Erfu who had no way to serve the fourth master for a few days, if she was lucky enough, maybe she was pregnant before Erfu gave birth.

Early the next morning, Erfu was woken up by the slight movements of the fourth master, leaned on the head of the bed a little lazily, casually took a jade-handled fan and fanned the wind, watched the fourth master come to the bed neatly dressed, left a warm and soft good morning, and left the west courtyard.

Seeing the fourth master leave the room, Erfu got up lazily, put on a plain white Hangzhou silk robe embroidered with small rose-red moon flowers, and went behind the screen to solve the physiological problem.

"Master, the eldest grandmother has brought the midwife to say goodbye!" Before Erfu could change into the clothes of the meeting, Yuqing walked in quickly from outside and said softly.

"Let them wait first, you will wait for me to change my clothes!" Erph frowned slightly, got up and sat down in front of the dressing table with a big belly, and commanded in a deep voice.

After a while, Erfu changed into a silk cheongsam embroidered with aqua blue embroidered plain white flowers, combed a simple little head on his head, stepped on a pair of soft-soled embroidered shoes, and came to the outside room with a smile.

The eldest grandmother and the others walked in lightly and made a half-squat salute.

"Get up, big mamma come here now, but what's the matter?" Erf asked a little strangely, to be honest, when no one counted the fetus in Erf's womb, the days in the west courtyard were extraordinarily comfortable, and it was rare for Erfu to come to Erfu at this hour to say goodbye, so that Erfu often forgot that there was already such a person as the housekeeper in the courtyard.

The eldest grandmother bowed again, then got up and stood by the wall, and spoke softly.

According to custom, when a woman gives birth, she naturally cannot give birth on the bed and kang in the main room, so the wing room must be arranged into a delivery room in advance, and there must be a clean woman to sleep on the kang in the delivery room for several days, which can be regarded as a complete set of tedious work.

Erf had never thought about this before, and the sudden mention of it made Erf stunned.

"The east and west wings have always been empty, but they can all be used, but which wing to choose for the delivery room, you have to ask the eldest grandmother to give me an idea!" Erph said with a smile on the principle of not understanding what to say.

The eldest grandmother did not refuse, and said directly: "If it is the meaning of the old slave, it is better to set the delivery room in the east wing, first, the east wing room is a little backlight, so that the side Fujin can rest well, and the west wing is just in the position of the west sun, I am afraid that it will make the master feel panicked."

Second, the day of the master's birth happened to be at the end of July and the beginning of August, when the west wind rose, and the west wing was not conducive to the master's health. ”

"Then do as Mama says, if there is anything missing, just talk to Yuqing and them!" Erfu nodded briskly and said softly.

The eldest grandmother did not stay long, led a few midwives to leave the room again, called the second-class maid to help, cleaned up the east wing room as much as possible, and re-burned the kang that had not been burned for several years, and lit a charcoal basin in the room, opened the window to disperse the smell, and smoked the fine red sandalwood to remove the smell.

Of course, this is only the first preparation, and the kang needs to be burned every day in the future, so as to avoid moisture on the kang, but these jobs do not need to worry about Erfu, and there is a big mother to prepare!

The eldest grandmother set the east wing room as the delivery room, so she moved all the things in the room out, and I don't know where to move a whole set of mahogany furniture to decorate the room, and hung a copper lock at the door, and at the same time invited Imperial Doctor Lin to carefully check every corner, for fear that someone would do something.

Not to mention that the eldest grandmother did a really meticulous job, Imperial Physician Lin was also conscientious enough, and found the dirty things that caused the woman's blood collapse in the corner of the wall, and found the things that made the woman unable to produce by the window, these things were naturally sent to the fourth master by the eldest grandmother without accident, which caused the fourth master to be angry again.

It's just that there is no evidence to prove who did it, and the fourth master can only sulk, and the appearance of a black face makes Su Peisheng cry bitterly, but fortunately, there will soon be another thing that annoys the fourth master, so he put this short-term anger in the back of his mind for the time being.

In May of the forty-second year of Kangxi (1703), Suo Etu was detained by Emperor Kangxi for the crime of "discussing state affairs and forming a party and acting recklessly".

When the news reached the ears of the fourth master, the fourth master couldn't say that he was not surprised, and hurriedly changed into the stone blue court clothes he wore when he entered the palace, and rushed to the palace on a fast horse.

As for what happened in the palace, outsiders naturally don't know, and Erfu stays by the side of the fourth master all day long, but from the obviously more ugly look on the fourth master's face, it can be seen that Kangxi Ye did not give him the face of the arrogant fourth master.

Not two days later, the news of Suo Etu's death came out from the Zongren Mansion again, and the fourth master seemed to have a spring installed on his buttocks, and suddenly entered the palace again.

Erfu looked at the back of the fourth master, shook his head helplessly, and muttered: I am afraid that the master will be angry again when he comes back.

Erfu, who has watched a number of Qing court dramas, deeply understands that this is just the beginning of the Nine Dragons to win the heir, and there will be more and more chilling things in the future!

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Yuqing Palace, the main hall.

Prince Yinren is still wearing an apricot-yellow python robe, but the wrinkled placket and robe show that this dress has been on Yinren for a few days, and the smell of wine and the dim room indicate Yinren's mood.

Since he was a child, he was named the crown prince, Yinren has always felt that he is the luckiest of the brothers, even if he does not have Eniang by his side to grow up, but he has a very smart elder Suo Etu to help, whether in terms of knowledge or means, Suo Etu is his well-deserved teacher, he taught him how to sort out the relationships around him, and he funded him to support the foundation.

I still remember when I was young, even the famous Huang Ama praised him, but since when did this change.

First Suo Etu was left at home, and then there was turmoil among the Hesheri tribe, Yinren really didn't understand, did he, the prince, really fail like this, failed so much that even the people in the family opposed him, and they couldn't wait to pull him off the stage for a while!

In the past few days, Yinren has lived a life of drunken dreams, sometimes singing loudly, sometimes whimpering in a low voice, and even the princess asked to see her several times, but Yinren was turned away, only the personal eunuch Ah Bao sent some wine and side dishes in from time to time.

After the fourth master hurriedly saw Emperor Kangxi from the Qianqing Palace, he turned around and came to the prince's Yuqing Palace, as soon as he entered the palace gate, he heard the howl in the main hall, and the original gloom on his face became a little more solemn, and he came to the door of the palace quickly, and pushed away Ah Bao and the guards who wanted to stop him, and kicked open the door that was hidden.

The smell in the hall door can be described as mixed, so that the fourth master was busy covering his nose, and regardless of the prince Yinren screaming and arguing on the throne, he directly opened the windows one by one, and then dragged the prince who was paralyzed on the throne to the inner hall.

The cold water splashed on the body of the prince Yinren, the prince who had been in a daze for a few days, for the first time, he was a little sober, looked at the fourth master with a black face like the bottom of the pot in front of him, stood up with a smile, put his wet arm on the shoulder of the fourth master, and said softly: "Fourth, you are here, come and have a drink with Gu!"

"Drink, drink, drink...... Second brother, if you don't cheer up, how can you reassure Lord Suo Etu's soul!" The fourth master pushed away the prince who seemed to be a scoundrel, and said in a deep voice.

"Cheer up, isn't it good for Lone to be like this, they don't have to bother calculating me anymore, and they don't have to pin one charge after another on Lone's relatives!"

The fourth master was angry and hated, originally he thought that even if the prince was hit, he would be able to cheer up soon, but now it seems that the prince has long been overwhelmed by that kind of pressure.

"If you are like this, you think that those relatives of yours can be safe, and your elder brother can be safe, then you really underestimate a person's jealousy, when they take action against you, they don't care that you are their brother for a long time!" The fourth master only felt that a punch was hit on the cotton, and he wet the handkerchief next to him and threw it on the prince, and dropped a sentence coldly and walked out of the main hall of Yuqing Palace quickly, and went home to hug the child.

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In the west courtyard, Erfu beat the people around her more than once today, so as not to be caught by the fourth master and punished by the wrong place, and also went to the east wing to see the delivery room arranged by the eldest grandmother, and looked at the new east wing in front of him, the whole person was a little bad!

Why do you say that, it's all because the layout in the east wing is a little weird.

Everywhere there are dark red brocade embroidered Fushou double-pattern drapery, and the kang is also covered with mattresses embroidered with auspicious patterns, which are dull red as far as the eye can see.

Erph silently said that if he could give birth to a child under such strong psychological pressure, would this person also be quite hard!

However, after asking the eldest grandmother, Erfu still decided that the delivery room should be like this, who let these things go through the shaman's blessings, and in such a matter of stepping into the ghost gate with one foot, it is better to believe in the power of gods and Buddhas!

Erfu looked at the belly pockets, small quilts and other things sent by the needle and thread, and instructed Yuqing to take the things they had prepared for themselves, and according to the instructions of the eldest grandmother, she selected Yulan and Yubing to warm the house for her, and gave her a lot of red envelopes, and then returned to the main room to wait for the fourth master, who might have been wronged outside, to return home.

At sunset, the fourth master returned to the west courtyard with a body of wine, causing Erfu to frown again and again, and instructed Yuqing to prepare sobering tea and hot water to bathe the fourth master, and then came to the fourth master with a cup of strong tea, gently leaned on the fourth master's arms, and said softly: "What's the matter?"

"Brothers work together to break gold, even ordinary people know things, but the lord's brothers don't know, in vain they are all taught by famous teachers!" The fourth master drank all the tea in one go, and then chewed a few tea leaves, and said hatefully.

Erfu smiled and took the sputum bucket of pure silver, handed it to the fourth master, and said softly: "I once read such a passage in an unknown book, saying that when there is 50 percent profit, people will take risks for it, for 100 percent profit, people will dare to trample on the laws of the world, and if there is 300 percent profit, people will dare to commit any crime, and even risk killing their heads.

The crown prince is the crown prince, that is, the future emperor who is justified in name, if he is dragged off the altar, how much benefit should there be!"

In fact, this passage was said by Marx in Capital, but now on this occasion, Erfu feels that this sentence is enough to describe that their brothers are trying their best to grab the chair, and it can also be a good comfort to the fourth master, after all, the interests are too great, and the brotherhood can be abandoned.

"Do you know that Suo Etu passed away in the Zongren Mansion?" the fourth master asked with some surprise.

Erfu was embarrassed, she didn't know if it was okay at all, but she knew that Jiulong had won the heir, and the fourth master obviously entered the palace because of the prince, but when he came back, he said such a thing, even if she was a fool, she could figure out the connection.

Regarding the fourth master's question, Erfu quickly calmed down, nodded with a smile, and said softly: "Although this matter cannot be said to be known to everyone, but I am your side Fujin, all kinds of gossip can always reach my ears, and then look at the appearance of the master who was injured by his brother, but I can also think of one or two!"

"Yes, the interests ......" The fourth master patted Erfu's shoulder and sighed.

Erfu didn't dare to continue this topic, for fear of being discovered as a demon, so she hurriedly beckoned Yuqing to prepare things for washing in the clean room, helped the somewhat drunk fourth master to walk behind the screen, resisted the urge to vomit, stripped the robe on the fourth master's body, called Yuqing for help, and helped the fourth master into the bathtub.

The hot water took away the smell of wine on the fourth master's body, but Erfu still felt that the smell of wine lingered on the tip of his nose, and kicked the robe on the ground with some disgust, and told Yuqing to send the pollution source to the laundry room, and then he took the hot water to wash the body of the fourth master.

In fact, the fourth master was just a little drunk, but his mind was very sober, because he was a little panicked in his heart, so he complained through the wine, and then saw Erfu holding a big belly and half-kneeling to wash his body, this old face was a little unbearable, took Erfu's soft little hand, and said softly: "If one day, the master also becomes a person like them, will you be afraid!"

"Since the day I entered the mansion, I have become one with Ye, no matter what Ye does, I will support you!" Erfu said seriously. R1152