The three days passed in a flash, and in addition to helping Geng's mother do housework and chatting about household chores, the next two days were to pick some common herbs and boil a few large pots of decoction to cool off the heat, leave some for family members and neighbors to use for themselves, and take the rest to the street to distribute to the homeless people scattered in the streets and alleys.

Geng's mother asked about the origin of the decoction prescription, and she only said that it was a method learned in the Sibeile Mansion, which could go to the summer heat and prevent sha. Geng's mother was also kind-hearted, thinking that this was a good thing to do good and accumulate virtue, so she didn't stop much, and helped to cook and distribute the medicine, and finally even the neighbors next door came together to help.

Seeing that everyone is so active in helping each other, the depression in my heart has also been resolved a lot. When I was about to leave home, I also deliberately wrote down the prescription, explaining that if Geng's mother was free, she would continue to boil medicine and send it to those homeless people, which would be regarded as a blessing for me.

When I returned to Sibel House, I began to get busy again, and the days passed day by day, and everything was as usual. In this way, from summer to autumn in a blink of an eye, into August.

After autumn, the heat and dryness of the capital finally decreased sharply under the washing of several rains. Although I haven't seen the autumn cool, it's not so unbearable, no one in the house is sick anymore, the new servants and maids are gradually getting used to getting started, and I have a lot less to do, and I only have to help Mama Du draw some new patterns and patterns for changing seasonal clothes.

These days in the Baylor Mansion, although it is hard, but it has also benefited a lot, and after following these people trained in the palace for a long time, their words and deeds are different from ordinary women. Mama Du treated me very well, praised me for my ingenuity, and joked that when he entered the palace one day, he would definitely have a good future with my appearance and demeanor.

When I heard her say this, I just smiled silently, the most important thing in the Heart Dao Palace is a beauty with good looks and manners, I am nothing, not to mention that no matter how good the future is, it is just a plaything for others, and what is there to be happy about.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and there is news in the palace that the royal driver will return to Beijing from Rehe in the near future, and in order to avoid taboos, the coffins of the five princesses will be escorted back to Beijing by Yinzhen, the same brother. Mama Du said that there is no longer a need for temporary manpower in the house now, and I can go home after the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the coffins of the five princesses were delivered to the mourning hall set up in the princess's mansion, and the funeral was prepared by the Ministry of Rites. Yinzhen was busy dealing with official business and couldn't get out of his body, so he asked people to send a message back home, and only explained eight words: "The family banquet is simple, you don't have to wait".

During the princess's funeral, and the lack of the main master, the masters in the house lost their interest in doing it, and only divided some moon cakes according to the routine, plus a few seasonal dishes, even if it was over this festival.

Rest early, wake up, only to see the moonlight like water, light and quiet through the open window into the house, outside the window a few clusters of light smoke and decay willows with the wind lightly, stirring the feelings of homesickness. This nostalgia is buried in the bottom of my heart for the distant nostalgia of that era. Those years were suddenly like a dream, and they were like flowing water that never returned, and they could only silently tell themselves not to cry and part, not to complain about their deaths.

Tossing and turning, I went out of the house in my clothes, and walked in the courtyard overflowing with cinnamon, and my irritable mood gradually calmed down. looked up at the bright moon in the sky, and gently hummed Faye Wong's "Water Tune Song Head".

After humming a song, when I turned around, I saw Yinzhen standing quietly under the tree looking at this side, feeling embarrassed, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute and said "Fourth master auspicious".

Yin Zhen didn't answer, raised his hand to signal for exemption, and walked a few steps forward before stopping and asking, "Why haven't you slept so late?"

"I can't sleep and come out for a walk" Xu is first intersection is still harmonious, this time he did not call himself a slave, nor did he deliberately cover it up, and said bluntly as usual.

Yin Zhen didn't care that I didn't use honorifics when I replied, and said absentmindedly "um" and said, "I haven't eaten yet, you go to make a few side dishes and drink a few drinks with me."

Yinzhen's face was gloomy, and his slightly emaciated figure looked particularly lonely and cold in the moonlight, and his slow tone was full of exhaustion and loneliness. I glanced at Su Peisheng, who was beside Yinzhen and didn't dare to come out with his head down, thinking that he had something in his heart, and he was afraid that his mood would be bad, so he didn't refuse, and followed Su Peisheng to the dining room.

The wine and food were all together, and he didn't want him to drink on an empty stomach, so he handed over a bowl of millet pumpkin porridge as usual, he didn't refuse, and silently took it and ate it.

Seeing that he had eaten porridge, according to the previous experience, he picked up the wine jug and poured him a full wine cup. This osmanthus wine is a new brew sent from the palace, the rich and mellow fragrance spreads among the two, mixed with the bursts of cinnamon that has come with the wind in the garden, and under the bright moonlight and mottled tree shadows, the artistic conception of the floating moon dusk is born.

"Sit down and drink together. Xu is the influence of the atmosphere, Yinzhen's face softened a lot, picked up the cup and put it on the opposite side.

He sat down at his words, took a sip from a full cup, but saw him pour a cup of cinnamon wine into his mouth without saying a word.

Manchurian people are addicted to alcohol, and the cinnamon wine brewed in the palace is to be sent to the palace masters to taste, so the taste is relatively mellow and soft, but even so, it is by no means as undrunk as rice wine. Seeing him use wine to kill his sorrows like this, he couldn't help but persuade worriedly: "Master, drinking like this is easy to hurt your body......"

Yin Zhen raised his head, a flash of displeasure flashed in his eyes stained with wine, and before I finished speaking, he answered and reprimanded: "It's just a minion, how can you talk so much, and keep your slave's duty to be a slave."

Drinking with him was the first thing he proposed, and now it was a well-intentioned persuasion, but he was reprimanded, and suddenly felt the tip of his nose sour, bit his lip and endured the grievances, got up and bent his knees, lowered his head and resigned: "The master is the master, and it is indeed a duty to be a slave to drink with the master at the same table here, and the slave will leave the house early tomorrow morning, please allow the slave to retire first." ”

"Out of the house...... Where are you going?" asked Yinzhen with a cold face.

"Ye Xu forgot, the slave is not a registered servant in the house, and now that the house is fully staffed, it is natural to go out of the house and go home" Listening to Yinzhen's question, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and his heart was really a noble person who forgot things.

Yin Zhen was silent, slowly filled the empty wine glass again, and said: "Get up, I was upset just now, and I spoke a little heavier, since you are going to leave the house tomorrow, you can drink with me today, regardless of your identity." ”

"If you really don't care, then listen to me, the wine is even more sorrowful, that is, drunk can really be worry-free, it's just self-deception, it's better to keep your heart clear and think about countermeasures. Listening to Yinzhen's softened tone, it was not good to insist on leaving, and stood up and finished saying what he had just said.

"The bottom of my heart is clear" Yin Zhen sneered sarcastically and muttered, "Sometimes I want to live a confused life when I am too clear"

For Yinzhen's words, I can only sigh in my heart, the person in front of me may have lived too clearly all his life, so he is too tired and lonely. Maybe he's right, and the occasional confusion may not be a temporary letting go and relief.

No longer dissuaded, nor did he have the intention of probing the source of his upset, but just quietly watched him drink and serve him food.

Time passed, the evening breeze blew, and only the sound of the grass and trees and the crickets in the grass brought a hint of sleepiness like a lullaby.

"Would you like to stay here?" Yin Zhen said suddenly.

His voice was not high, but the clear voice broke the drowsy atmosphere, and made me suddenly feel excited, and the sleepiness that I had just born disappeared.

This simple question, I can interpret many layers of meaning when I taste it carefully, so I don't dare to answer rashly, and I think about it for a while before saying: "I can't help myself, I don't want or don't want to do it, just be at peace with what happens." ”

"Be safe with what happens" Yinzhen hooked the corners of her lips, looked at me with a smile that seemed to be not a smile, and said: "This is not like what you can say at your age, don't you have any plans?"

"Plans?" I was slightly stunned, what can I plan for my heart, there are only so many paths left and right, no matter which one I choose, the final result is nothing more than getting married, having children, and being willing to be a wife, or a lonely lamp that will always accompany you for the rest of your life. The life I want to live has become a luxury since I came to this era, and I am tired when I think too much. It's just that these words naturally won't be talked to him, so he shook his head and said: "I haven't thought about it, let it be, don't force it."

A look of inquiry flashed in Yinzhen's drunken eyes, and his gaze wandered over my face for a long time, and then fell into a long silence.

The night passed like this, uneventful, until the sound of the bangzi in the outer courtyard sounded after the fourth watch, and the drunken Yinzhen left with Su Peisheng's support.

I dragged my sleepy body back to the servants' house, and had just been lying down for less than two hours when I was awakened by the servants who had gotten up and were busy. At this time, the sky was still bright, and he simply didn't sleep, washed briefly, and after intersecting the affairs in his hands, he said goodbye to Mama Du and left Baylor Mansion, where he had lived and worked for several months-

The author has something to say: Okay, this chapter was written in a hurry, it is really light and flat, it can be regarded as a foreshadowing for the follow-up, and you need to quietly savor the silent and sound interaction between the two. But I also feel a little bit unwritten.,Find time to think about it again.,The general meaning is here.,Let's just look at it first.。

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