The daily life of the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, thick black

Chapter 226 Growth
Walking all the way outside, Gu Huaishu suddenly thought of Shen Yang.

Now Shen Qi has also become Fourth Master's slave, but he doesn't know when something will happen to him.

Some things are really wrong.

But it has been so many years, and Gu Huaishu doesn't think much of it.

She still pretended to be Qi Yunzhai's embroiderer, put on the water-green clothes, and went back to Zhang's mansion. Zhang Tingyu was sweeping snow on the plum petals in the yard, "You came back just in time. Sweeping snow and making tea is one of the great pleasures in life."

"It means that you still have such a leisurely mood."

Now that the government and the opposition have just been settled, a large number of officials have been impeached just after the New Year, and there are still a lot of things to deal with.

"My lord Li Guangdi wants to beg for a rest, but the emperor won't let me. Now the emperor and his ministers are talking in the Changchun Garden. I have nothing to do now. It's rare that I have such leisure..." Zhang Tingyu turned to talk to her, but looking at her embroidered lady The clothes, but I feel that the eyes are particularly bright, fresh and elegant, "Is the head still on the neck?"

"Not anymore."

Gu Huaishu touched his neck, and then made a joke.

Zhang Tingyu asked her to come over and picked up a big teacup to sweep the snow from the plum petals, and said: "I don't know if Mr. Li Gang can resign, he is not young, and now some people in the court say that he is greedy for high officials. Rich salary, riches and honors, probably also thinks he is an eyesore..."

"But doesn't the emperor just trust Mr. Li?"

In fact, from the beginning to the end, it was Kangxi who refused to let Li Guangdi go. How could Li Guangdi be greedy for glory and wealth?
This kind of officialdom, as he is getting older, he can see more clearly, where is there any clean person?

Today you belong to this camp, maybe there are other camps behind your back. You are used to court battles, so Li Guangdi must have become a genius.It's just that when Zhang Ying was begging for a rest, she was also full of exhaustion.He has fought with others in the court all his life, but in fact, he will end up like this when he is old.

Li Guangdi is leaving, who will succeed Li Guangdi next?
When Gu Huaishu had this question in his heart, he glanced at Zhang Tingyu: "You..."

"I really hope that the emperor will keep Mrs. Li. After all, he is familiar with things here, and it's still very chaotic. I'm alone? I can't live." Zhang Tingyu sighed, and said, "Don't think I'm so powerful. , now I'm still not able to handle the things Li Guangdi handled well, sometimes... Jiang is still old and hot."

"I didn't say that you would be able to catch up with that old man right away."

After all, Li Guangdi has served the emperor for so many years, so Li Guangdi knows what Kangxi thinks best, right?
The most important thing is that no mediocrity can make it this far. Zhang Tingyu is a genius, but some things can't be achieved overnight, not to mention that he left for three years halfway, and his connections don't happen overnight.

Take one step at a time, take your time, and don't think about reaching the sky when you don't have the strength.

"I went to Si Ye's place today, and when I came back, Gao Wuyong told me something..."

In fact, it is just a few short sentences, but as long as it is combined with Yinzhen's own words, you will know how true or false it is.

Thinking about it, Gu Huaixiu sighed and said, "Fourth Master must have made a mistake, but there must be Eighth Master's calculations. Now thinking about Princess Dongzhuer...it's really a pity..."

After saying this, Gu Huaixiu turned her head and saw the maid in Zhang Ruoai's room over there. She paused for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Doukou, is Second Young Master in the room?"

"Here, I haven't come out for a while."

Cardamom didn't know what was going on inside, so she answered with some concern.

I also told the second master about this a few days ago, but the second master only said to let him go, and the second master should have told the wife, so I am not in a hurry.

After hearing this, Gu Huaixiu was silent for a while, before saying: "Forget it, you go... No, call Ruoai to see me later."

After all, she felt that this would not work. Zhang Tingyu said that Ruo Ai would figure it out and get out of that sadness, but things might not be that simple.As their parents, they must not overestimate his endurance. It is true that Zhang Ruoai is also a genius, but since he was so smart and sensible since he was a child, it is easier to get into the horns of this kind of thing.

Don't be afraid of [-], just be afraid of what happens.

Gu Huaixiu sighed, and was suddenly embraced by Zhang Tingyu. He smiled: "It's good for you mother and son to chat, but you should go in earlier and change your clothes, it's too cold. You Talk to Margaret, I'll make tea outside, and you can drink tea when you come out."

Looking at Zhang Tingyu's teacup that was not yet full of snow, Gu Huaishu smiled and said, "I'm afraid I'm coming out, you just started making tea."

How elegant is it to sweep snow and make tea?
Zhang Tingyu, who had just won the crown, did this, which was a beautiful thing for a talented man and a beautiful woman, but now Zhang Tingyu is a middle-aged man in his 40s. Although he is not old-fashioned, he is much more serious.Although it is clearing snow and making tea, but old couples, doing such elegant things, suddenly feel a strange feeling.

After all, they are old.

Gu Huaixiu thought about it, and went into the house, changed into a lotus-colored jacket, and sat in the house, holding a stove to warm his hands.

She put her hands on the stove, and after a while she heard Cardamom's voice: "Ma'am, the Second Young Master is here."

Cardamom came first, but Zhang Ruoai came later.

Zhang Ruoai came in after a while, and bowed to Gu Huaixiu: "My son greets his mother."

"Get up and sit down."

Gu Huaishu saw that he seemed to have lost a lot of weight all of a sudden, not really thin, but described as looking haggard.

He is grown up.

Zhang Ruoai has thought a lot these days, and has been depressed recently. He didn't answer his father's question at the beginning, but now it seems that he still has no answer.

"Mother, Ruoai has been thinking about it for a long time... Father asked his son a question..."

"What did he ask you?"

Gu Huaixiu pretended not to know, but when Zhang Tingyu was talking to him that day, she was listening behind the screen, but she never came out.

Zhang Ruoai didn't know that Gu Huaixiu actually knew everything, he just said: "Father asked me if I liked her, but my son couldn't figure out whether I liked her or not."

"That's because you don't know what liking is."

Gu Huaishu smiled at him very softly, and then said: "Now you don't have to think about this question all the time, and your mother won't give you the answer. There are some things that you will naturally understand when you grow up. The road is up to you step by step. If you come out, even if someone else paved it for you, you have to step on it yourself."

Anyone who has not personally experienced things is useless.

He is indeed not young now, but he has never liked a girl before. The first Dong Zhuer has already become like this, which may not be a big hurdle for Zhang Ruoai.

As for when you can step over, you will only know at that time.

Zhang Ruoai bent her lips: "Will my son understand one day?"

"You will understand when you grow up."

To be honest, generally speaking, Gu Huaishu doesn't like to say such things, it's too ambiguous and doesn't touch the edge at all.

Many adults like to use such words to teach children, but now Gu Huaixiu is blessing him.

With a warm light in her eyes, she only said: "Both your father and I know that you are a good boy, and Dong Zhuer is also a good boy. You are not wrong."

"Who is wrong then?"

Zhang Ruoai asked directly.

Who is wrong...

Zhang Tingyu didn't tell Zhang Ruoai about why something happened suddenly to Dong Zhu'er, and Gu Huaishu didn't tell here, but now that Gu Huaishu knows something, should he tell or not?

She thought for a while, and said: "I know about half of it, but I can't tell you, and you are not allowed to look it up now. You have read so many sage books, why don't you just read them with your own eyes. Now that you are not young, In a few years, I will go back to Tongcheng for scientific research... I will talk to your father later and let you work in your father's study."

There are many things that cannot be explained clearly, Gu Huaishu just wants to truly show him the tip of the iceberg of this world.

She didn't want Zhang Ruoai to be depressed like this.

Zhang Ruoai raised her head suddenly. Not many people could enter her father's study room.

Father is an important minister in the court, and there are quite a lot of secrets in the study, which are nothing to Kangxi and Zhang Tingyu, so they can be placed in the study.But for Zhang Ruoai, it was a whole new world.

"Dong Zhuer..."

"Dong Zhu'er was buried in Mongolia and has already left." Gu Huaishu knew that he still couldn't let go, so he said, "Your Uncle Shi Fang made sweet soup for you, you can drink some after you go back. First put your body When you are growing up, don't treat yourself badly."

There is no need to say more about the other words, Zhang Ruoai will understand by herself.

Gu Huaishu's solution was, since she and Zhang Tingyu couldn't talk about Dong Zhu'er's affairs, let Zhang Ruoai go and see for herself.

Who is right and who is wrong, they don't leave any pre-existing impressions in Zhang Ruoai's heart, let alone give him rules.

At least Gu Huaishu felt that his growth was his own business.

People always have to grow up and encounter many, many, many difficulties, but it doesn't matter, just walk over it.

Just like her son, since he was a child, he was considered smooth, and Gu Huaishu still worried that he was a flower in the greenhouse, but the matter of Dong Zhuer...

Although it is unfortunate, but selfishly speaking, it is also a great blessing.

She got up, pulled Zhang Ruoai up, and straightened his clothes: "You have to know, these are the hurdles that must be passed in life. Your father and I have walked through it step by step."

At the beginning, whether Zhang Ruoai could survive was a question, but isn't he also here now?

There is nothing that can't be overcome, there is only yourself who can't be defeated.

Gu Huaishu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Your father is sweeping the snow outside to make tea, you go and help, I just sit and watch you two are busy."

Zhang Ruoai smiled, and finally said: "Okay."

He went out, walked to Zhang Tingyu's side, picked up the teacup, and said: "Father, I will make tea for mother, you should rest."

Zhang Tingyu turned around with the silver spoon in his hand and glanced at the teacup in his hand: "You kid, you know how to be courteous in front of your mother before you grow up? The tea she drinks has to come from your father and me."

"..."

When Gu Huaishu came out and heard this sentence, she was speechless for a moment. After a while, she burst out laughing with a bit of relief, her eyes glistening with moisture, but in the end she was suppressed by her, and turned to warmth.

The winter snow is gradually melting, and the weather is gradually warming up.

Chaotang and Zhang's Mansion entered into a period of relief at the same time. The crown prince was abolished, the fourth master's party and the eighth master's party had just passed the fight, and the fourth master was punished by foot restraint. No one dared to jump around now.

Gu Huaishu originally thought that it was nothing serious, but he did not expect that the Nianfu suddenly sent an invitation, saying that it was the birthday of the old man who had been begging to retire early.

The invitation was sent to Gu Huaixiu, but Gu Huaixiu felt strange: "This invitation was written in the name of Nian's family, why should it be in the hands of the second master, why did it get to me?"

Anyway, Nian Gengyao is also a disciple of the fourth master, even if he raises the flag, he still has to call himself a slave to Yinzhen, and he is Zhang Tingyu's classmate, so it would be bad not to go.

"On the eighth day of February, get ready."

(End of this chapter)