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61韦小宝急忙抓起经书藏入怀中。康熙回进寝殿，关上房门，摇头道:“是老贱人的奸夫。真太后呢?”韦小宝忽然想到一事，掀开太后床上褥子，说道:“床底下有暗格。”却见暗格中除一柄剑外，便无别物。
Wei Xiaobao hurriedly grabbed the scriptures and hid them in his arms. Kangxi went back into the bedroom, closed the door, shook his head and said, “It’s the adulterer of the old bitch. What about the real empress dowager?” Wei Xiaobao suddenly thought of something, opened the mattress on the empress dowager’s bed, and said, “There is a dark grid under the bed.” But there is nothing in the dark grid except a sword.
62康熙抢上前，帮着韦小宝掀开床板，只见一个女子横卧在地下一张垫子上，身上盖着薄被。
Kangxi rushed forward and helped Wei Xiaobao lift the bed board. A woman was lying on a cushion under the ground, covered with a thin quilt.
63韦小宝点起烛火，扶起那女子，问道:“是……是太后?当今皇上亲自来救圣驾。”那女子眼睁一线，向康熙凝视片刻，哇地一声哭了出来，伸臂搂着康熙，紧紧抱住。
Wei Xiaobao lit the candle, lifted the woman, and asked, “Is it… the Empress Dowager? The emperor has come to save the holy man in person.” The woman stared at Kangxi for a moment with her eyes open, cried out, stretched out her arms around Kangxi, and hugged her tightly.
64韦小宝退开几步，心想他二人相会，必有很多话说。我多听一句，脑袋不稳一分，遂退出寝殿，关上殿门，招手将八名侍卫及宫女太监叫到花园中。
Wei Xiaobao stepped back and thought that he would have a lot to say when they met. When I heard more, my head was unstable, so I left the dormitory, closed the door, and waved eight bodyguards and eunuchs to the garden.
65韦小宝道:“刚才皇上跟建宁公主捉迷藏闹着玩，公主穿了一身古怪衣衫，扮成好像一个大肉球一般，跳了出去，大伙儿可瞧见没有?”众侍卫，宫女，太监十分乖觉，忙道:“是，是。公主身法快，扮的模样也好玩。”
Wei Xiaobao said: “Just now the emperor and Princess Jianning were playing hide-and-seek. The princess wore a strange dress, dressed like a big meat ball, and jumped out. Can you see?” The guards, maids and eunuchs were very obedient and said: “Yes, yes. The princess is fast and funny.”
66韦小宝微微一笑:“这些孩子们的玩意儿，皇上不想让人家知道。你们哪个脖子上的脑袋放得不稳，想多嘴多舌?”众人道:“我们不敢。“
Wei Xiaobao smiled: “The emperor doesn’t want to let others know about these children’s things. Which of you has a head on your neck that is unstable and wants to talk?” People said: “We dare not“
67韦小宝问三名被撞倒受伤的侍卫:“你们怎么好端端受了伤。”一名侍卫道，他们三人练武，出手重了，互相打伤。韦小宝点点头，一一问了各人姓名后警告，谁胡说八道，就一起砍了。大伙儿一齐谢他救命大恩。
Wei Xiaobao asked the three bodyguards who were knocked down and injured, “How did you get hurt?” A bodyguard said, and the three of them practiced martial arts and hit each other badly. Wei Xiaobao nodded, asked the names of each person one by one, and warned that whoever was talking nonsense would be killed together. Everyone thanked him for saving his life.
68韦小宝挥令众人散了，回到寝殿门口坐着静等，直到康熙喊他进去，才把自己刚才的安排一一禀告。康熙微一迟疑。太后道，今日大喜，不可多伤人命。康熙点头，韦小宝松了一口气，知道那三十五人已逃得性命。
Wei Xiaobao waved the crowd away and went back to the door of the dormitory to sit quietly, waiting until Kangxi called him in, and then told him what he had just arranged. Kangxi hesitated slightly. The empress dowager said, “I’m very happy today. Don’t hurt people more.”. Kangxi nodded, and Wei Xiaobao sighed with relief, knowing that the thirty-five people had escaped.
69康熙封韦小宝为一等子爵后，吩咐退下。是夜，韦小宝到隐密处取出所藏经书，合刚得到的共七部，一一拆开封皮，取出许多羊皮碎片，又将各封皮缝起还原，将羊皮碎片包在一处，藏在一个秘密地方。
After Kangxi made Wei Xiaobao a first class viscount, he ordered him to leave. That night, Wei Xiaobao went to the secret place and took out the scriptures he had collected. He combined the seven books he had just obtained. He opened the covers one by one, took out many pieces of sheepskin, sewed up the covers and restored them, wrapped the pieces of sheepskin in one place and hid them in a secret place.
70次日一早，韦小宝去上书房侍候听旨。康熙低声道:“明日便派你送公主去云南，赐婚给那姓吴的王八蛋。太后说，那恶婢假冒太后，原想查知我们满洲龙脉的所在，要设法破了。太后守死不说，才令老婊子奸计未逞。”
In the morning of the next day, Wei Xiaobao went to the study to wait for the order. Kangxi said in a low voice, “Tomorrow I will send you to send the princess to Yunnan and marry the bastard surnamed Wu. The empress dowager said that the evil maidservant pretended to be the empress dowager. She wanted to find out where the dragon of Manchuria is, and tried to break it. The empress dowager kept silent, so that the old bitch failed.”
