The cup had just been used by Erf, and there was a pink lip print on the rim.

The fourth master took the sour plum soup, and he didn't dislike it, he drank it all in one gulp, raised his hand to rub the top of Xiao Qi's hair, and walked to the inner room.

He escorted Emperor Kangxi from the Forbidden City to Changchun Garden all the way......

Emperor Kangxi sat in a room-sized luanjia, with Bingjian beside him to cool down, and a well-informed bachelor to chat and relieve boredom, drink the spring water of Yuquan Mountain, and eat small snacks carefully made by the chefs in the palace's imperial dining room, not to mention how leisurely he is.

It's just that the poor fourth master ......

He was a person who was afraid of heat, not counting wearing a heavy and gorgeous python robe, but also sitting on horseback, facing the unbearable heat, facing the sand and dust swept up by the wind all the way, and staying by Luan's side every step of the way.

Along the way, Emperor Kangxi, the emperor, didn't feel hard at all, but the fourth master's children's shoes were miserable.

He had a thought in his heart at this moment, he wanted to take a cold shower thoroughly, cool off and cool down.

In the corner of the inner room, in a small space behind the screen.

In a large oval bath bucket with a width of one meter and five wide, Shilan and the others had already prepared bath water.

On the corner table next to the bath tub, in addition to a set of neatly stacked change of clothes in the tray, there is also a pot of warm tea, which is specially ordered by Erfu to prepare the palace maid, don't look at the tea is warm, but a cup of hot tea is in the stomach, sweating from the inside to the outside, it is definitely the fastest way to get rid of the heat, and I don't worry about sweating, because the fourth master who drinks tea sits in the bathtub and takes a bath, and there is no uncomfortable feeling.

In this way, the fourth master can come out to chat with Erfu in a while.

Sure enough, the fourth master, who walked into the inner room to wash his head with a slumped head, saw the pot of hot tea next to the bathtub, and the corners of his mouth were already imperceptibly raised.

And Erfu, who was chatting with Xiao Qi in the outer hall to relieve his boredom, had already begun to set up a meal.

Lunch is cold noodles.

It's not that Erfu wants to eat this bite, it's just that he rushed all the way from the city to the Old Summer Palace, and the ingredients he brought were really not enough for Xiaoshengzi to make a decent table, and in such a hot weather, they were all running all the way, and they were all so tired that they had no appetite.

The cold noodles are refreshing and refreshing, and they are served with a variety of shredded fresh vegetables, which is also more enjoyable to eat.

After a while, the small kitchen sent a pot of cold noodles soaked in ice cube water, and together with the cold noodles, there were also shredded carrots, cucumber shreds, and a few boiled side dishes and blanched vegetables, and most importantly, the bowl of fried sauce with the fragrance of sauce, which can be used to mix noodles and dip green vegetables.

In the outer hall, a few side dishes have just been arranged, and the cold noodles soaked in the ice cubes and water have not yet been fished into the bowl, and the fourth master who is washing in the inner room has already come to the table refreshed.

The fourth master, who has always paid more attention to health, even started at the fruit plate on the corner table before he had lunch.

It was the iced watermelon that had just been cut and delivered from the kitchen.

Erfu originally wanted to let the palace maid over there in the small kitchen send it over at one time, so there was no need to come back and forth, after all, the weather is so hot now, it's better not to move, and a little activity is sweating all over the body, since it can be sent over at one time, why toss these hard-working palace maids back and forth......

Sweet watermelon in sand and cut into a fruit plate with a layer of ice underneath, just right for dessert after cooking.

When Shilan and the others set the table, they didn't put the watermelons in other places.

It's just that these people didn't expect that the fourth master would not even look at the main meal, so they picked up the glass plate with the ice watermelon and ate the ice watermelon in large pieces, after all, this is obviously not in line with the dining habits of the fourth master.

Erff was short of a moment before she had already spoken out to warn.

Watermelon is not a particularly cold fruit, but it is a fruit that is particularly prone to satiety.

The fourth master has been in the palace since he got up early and has not hit his teeth, but he has not been able to eat something properly, and it is already noon at this time, if he is allowed to eat watermelon and eat all-you-can-eat, this body will not be able to bear it......

"Ahem, let's eat noodles first, and then watermelon later. ”

The fourth master is a person who knows how to control himself, he is also a little thirsty for a while, and he doesn't want to drink sweet and sour plum soup and slightly bitter hot tea, just eat a few pieces of watermelon to moisten his throat, so as soon as Erfu said this, he also put down the fruit plate in his hand.

"This watermelon is good, you can send more to Zhuang Shang. He took the noodle bowl handed over by the palace maid and said casually with some embarrassment.

"Well, I'll send a message to the housekeeper later. Erf replied softly.

Xiao Qi, who was sitting next to him and ate noodles vigorously, swallowed the food in his mouth very hard, and then said: "Ama, E-Niang will invite the eldest aunt, the third aunt and the fifth aunt to come to the Old Summer Palace as guests in a few days, why don't you invite the ladies in the palace for E-niang, it is just a lively and lively place." ”

As the saying goes: As soon as you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea, and Xiao Lang is a passerby from then on.

This harem concubine wants to leave the palace, it is definitely not an easy thing, all kinds of rules are restricted, even if there is a chance to go back to save relatives, they can't spend the night outside the palace, and they have to follow etiquette, and they don't count to avoid foreign men, even their own brothers and fathers can't be alone.

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, as long as there is some face in front of the emperor, you can always go back to your mother's house to take a look, it is inconvenient to go out of the palace to save your relatives, and the internal affairs office can also arrange for the maiden family to enter the palace to ask for peace.

The worst thing is the palace concubines whose mother's family is out of town.

For them, this kind of thing, provincial relatives, unless the emperor drove out to patrol the city where his mother's family is located, and he was favored in front of the emperor, so that he had the opportunity to meet his mother's relatives.

After all, the days when a foreign wife who is not a member of the royal family enters the palace to ask for peace is only a few days.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs arranged for foreign women to enter the palace to ask for peace, and they also had to pay close attention to the palace concubines with high family backgrounds and honorable favors, and some small transparent palace concubines entered the palace, and it was not for nothing that they would never see their families again in their lives.

Of course, this refers to those palace concubines who are not favored and have no prominent family background as a backer.

For example, Concubine De Niangniang, who is in the position of a concubine and has an heir to be a backer outside, is not within this range.

However, even if it is a palace concubine like Concubine De Niangniang, the number of times she can see her mother's relatives throughout the year is also a handful, after all, the Forbidden City is not a theater garden that can be entered with money, how can you casually let people in to visit, so Xiao Qi's proposal, the fourth master didn't even think about it, and he had already decisively refused.

Nothing else, just because he's afraid of trouble.

After all, it is a matter of course to invite Concubine De to come to the Old Summer Palace to live for two days, and no one can find fault with his son's filial piety to his own mother, but inviting other palace concubines in the palace to come to the Old Summer Palace to attend a banquet and listen to the play, it would be a bit out of line, and he was also worried that these palace concubines would take the opportunity to make trouble, once any palace concubine had an accident in his own garden courtyard, then he would definitely become an unlucky scapegoat.

The fourth master said that he would not be stupid enough to provide opportunities for those brothers who want to step down from power all the time.

"If you really miss your grandmother, you should go to Changchun Garden to walk around more, it is not easy for your grandmother to go out of the palace. The fourth master refused very tactfully, he was really unwilling to tell Xiao Qi the bloody reality.

The fourth master hopes that his little seven can be carefree for the rest of his life, just like Princess Heshuo Duanmin.

Although Princess Heshuo Duanmin is not the daughter of Emperor Shunzhi, she is only a royal family daughter in the palace for political needs, but her biological father is Prince Jian Jidu, a cousin of Emperor Shunzhi, and her biological mother is Prince Jian Fujin, from the Borzigit clan of the Horqin grassland, and the Empress Xiaozhuang Wen who was still alive at the time and the current queen mother are relatives of Zheng'er Bajing, that is, she became the adopted daughter of Emperor Shunzhi, and she is also living like a fish in water.

She was brought up in the palace since she was a child, but she has been raised in front of the queen mother, the queen mother has no children and no daughters, and loves her as her own daughter, that is, the queen mother was not valued by Emperor Shunzhi at that time, but there is Emperor Shunzhi's biological mother Xiaozhuang Emperor Wen Empress Dowager staring at it, who dares to ignore the queen mother who was not favored at that time, plus Princess Duanmin's biological parents are also the top forces in the royal family, Princess Duanmin naturally became one of the most noble princesses in the palace, that is, she married Mongolia and relatives, but she also lived a prosperous life.

Because Princess Duanmin's biological mother is a Mongolian, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang Wen, who raised her, and the Empress Dowager Borzigit, who was still the queen at the time, are also Mongolians, that is, she left the capital where she lived since she was a child and married Bandi, but there is nothing uncomfortable with her, because she is interested in Mongolian language and Mongolian living habits, The customs are not unfamiliar, so in the eyes of other princesses, they married to a poor and remote place to live a hard life, but in her opinion, there is not much change, the only change is the difference in the place of residence, from the Forbidden City to the princess's mansion in Horqin.

Not only that, in the second year of her marriage, Bandi inherited the title of Prince Darhan, and Princess Duanmin also became the head of the Horqin Left Wing Central Banner, in the house, she is a princess, and there is no in-laws and other elders to restrict, outside the house, her identity is also to make her invincible, even if her arrogant and domineering style has caused some people to be disgusted, but no one dares to offend her in the slightest.

If you have to pick out some of the unhappiness in most of her life, there are some.

For example, the early death of her brother Desai caused Prince Jane's title to fall to the concubines of Rabu and Yabu.

For example, her relationship with Emperor Kangxi, who is now sitting on the throne, is not very harmonious, in the thirty-first year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi set up a guard for some princesses who married according to Baylor's grade, including Emperor Kangxi's own daughter Princess Chunxi, Princess Rongxian, Princess Duanjing and Emperor Kangxi's aunt Princess Shuhui, but she missed the sister of Princess Duanmin.

But these are not big problems, because compared to the various sad fates of other princesses, she is too happy.

Besides, she is far away in Mongolia, holding real power in her hands, the current Prince Durhan is her biological son, she lives a carefree and smooth life like the emperor, this little problem will not affect her life at all, and her words and deeds are looked down upon by Emperor Kangxi, but it is the most ideal princess living state of the fourth master.

In history, the relationship between the fourth master and this Duanmin princess is very strong, and the reality is also the same.

Regarding this, even Emperor Kangxi once asked in person.

Because in the eyes of Emperor Kangxi, his sister is a completely immoral person, with a perverse and violent personality, not on good terms with relatives, and without the slightest virtue of a traditional woman, Wen Hui and virtuous women, if it weren't for the identity of Princess Duanmin, the power in his hands and the face of the Empress Dowager Borzigit, he would have hated to destroy her humanely with a holy decree, so when the news that the fourth master and Princess Duanmin were very committed reached his ears, he was full of curiosity.

Emperor Kangxi couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, and specially summoned the fourth master into the palace to inquire.

The answer given by the fourth master also gave Emperor Kangxi a feeling that he had opened the door to a new world.

Because the fourth master said so, the fourth master said: My princess of the Qing Dynasty married Mongolia and relatives, it was originally a marriage, why shouldn't she be so flamboyant and wanton, but those who were depressed and depressed, and finally ended up with a childless and lonely princess, it was really a loss of face for the princess of the Qing Dynasty.

Emperor Kangxi thought about it carefully, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Who wants to marry the baby Gege who grew up in the palm of his hand since he was a child, and he will be small and low.

Besides, no matter how arrogant this Duanmin princess is, at least the title of Prince Durhan passed to the hands of Luo Buzang Gongbu, who was closer to the Qing court, which is also the main purpose of the ancestors to set the rule of Manchu and Mongolian harmony, the purpose is to better stabilize the Mongolian vassal kings, after all, no one can but recognize the combat ability of this Mongolian iron horse.

In such a comparison, Emperor Kangxi felt that Princess Duanmin was more outstanding than those princesses he valued a lot.

Of course, what about these thoughts, Emperor Kangxi just thought about it in his heart, and he didn't plan to change his attitude towards Princess Duanmin.

After all, he and Princess Duanmin are old enemies who have had a grudge since childhood.

At that time, he and Princess Duanmin were both sons and daughters of Emperor Shunzhi, although Emperor Kangxi was the son of Emperor Shunzhi, although Emperor Kangxi was a prince who could inherit the bloodline and inherit the unification, but Emperor Shunzhi, who was all about Concubine Dong E, did not care much about the son of Emperor Shunzhi, but Princess Duanmin was protected by the unfavored queen and Emperor Shunzhi's biological mother, Empress Xiaozhuang Wen, and that life was much better than that of him, the prince born by Concubine Han.

He is very grateful to Empress Xiaozhuang Wen and the Empress Dowager for nurturing and caring for him, but he just hates Princess Duanmin.