The night in winter is very long, and when Yinzhen leaves, it is not yet Yinshi, according to the custom, he has to go to the front yard to deal with some affairs first, and then Yinshi goes out of the house and enters the palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info When I sent him out of the house, the snow had stopped, and the snow in the yard had not yet cleared. He only asked me to send it to the door, and he left by himself accompanied by Su Peisheng. His figure was emaciated, even in a thick brocade robe and a large coat, and the two of them left a long series of footprints on the snow, although lonely but very determined.

After Yinzhen left, I didn't continue to sleep. I don't know when I started to fall into a light sleep, and the slightest sound would wake me up, and once I woke up, it would be difficult to fall back asleep.

The charcoal fire in the house is just right, and even if you are wearing a Chinese coat, you still feel warm. Thinking that since he was completely sleepy, he simply called Xiao Shunzi and his maidservant Ah Fu to come in and wait to wash and combine, and picked out a violet-colored robe, planning to wear the new white rabbit fur collar from the Internal Affairs Office when he went to see Nian's later. This outfit looks calm and fresh, and it is a little more cold in such a season.

Speaking of which, in the blink of an eye, he is almost thirty years old, and he has already lived past the years of his previous life, and he has to sigh that the years are fleeting. Fortunately, they have fine clothes and jade food all day long, and they know the way of traditional Chinese medicine health maintenance than ordinary people, plus suitable makeup and dress, they have given birth to children earlier than this era, resulting in a deficiency of body qi and blood, and they are not favored by their husbands and are depressed all day long, so that the haggard women look much brighter and younger, and they are much younger than when they first entered the house.

In fact, thirty years old is not old for modern women, but for the Qing Dynasty, where the average life expectancy was thirty-three years old, it was called the age of "half-old". Looking at the Ulanala clan, who is already slightly old before the age of forty, you can know that time does not favor anyone, even the twenty-four-year-old Nian is not as youthful and lively as modern women of this age, but is overly cautious and quiet, which may be the unique precociousness of women in this era.

It's just that the years have worn away not only the youth of women, but also Yinzhen, who has just entered the age of forty, can no longer be compared with him in his prime when he first met. Perhaps it is true that a hard-working person is shorter than a lazy person, just as I died of overwork in my last life.

Looking at Yinzhen's haggardness, feeling that he was not as energetic as before, there was worry and helplessness in his heart, in addition to reminding him to pay attention to his body, he had always had to spend more effort to send nourishing medicinal food to treat him as much as possible. It's just that I heard Su Peisheng say that he often has no time to eat because he is focused on the affairs at hand, and when he is done, he is already tired and has no appetite, so he just scribbles a few bites. I also talked about this matter when I chatted with the Ulanala clan, but even this Zhengfujin was helpless about it, and I could only do what I could do as much as possible, and I could only resign myself to fate.

When the morning sun first rose, the road covered with snow at night had already been cleared by the servants and maids who had risen early, and only the thick snow covering the sparse grass and trees on both sides could tell the bitterness of last night's wind and snow.

Last year's road was not in a hurry, knowing that Yinzhen would inevitably send someone early in the morning to inform the Wulanala clan of agreeing to me to take care of the Nian's, and after the Wulanala clan got the news early in the morning, it would also take time to send someone to convey this matter to the Nian's side to know. I have to set aside the time for the Ulanala clan to arrange for someone from last year's clan, but I can't go too late, otherwise it would be rude to let the dignified side Fujin wait for me with such a low-status character. The grasp of this time difference is almost a technical job, which can be practiced overnight, and if I hadn't been reminded by Xiao Shunzi when he went out, I'm afraid I would have been negligent.

Thinking about it, this was originally just a very simple matter, Yinzhen directly sent someone to talk to the Nian family, but after all, the Wulanala clan is the main room and the hostess of the inner house, so everything related to the inner house can't bypass the relationship between the Wulanala clan, and it must be arranged and passed by her to count. This is not only the rules and etiquette only of the royal family and nobles, but all the official eunuchs who have some heads and faces do not act like this, otherwise it will become a joke in the gossip of the market, and at worst, it will even be impeached in the court as a handle for lax governance.

Along the way, I enjoyed the scenery like ink and blue, and let all kinds of messy thoughts fill my mind, and before I knew it, I had arrived in front of Nian's courtyard, and I happened to see Nian's personal servant Xiaofuzi send out the person sent by the Wulanala clan to spread the word.

"The slave asked Geng Gege to say goodbye, Gege came by coincidence, the master of Fujin had just sent someone to pass the word on the front foot, and Gege had already arrived on the back foot. Fang Fujin was resting in the house, and Gege was a little later, and Rong Nu went to welcome Gege into the house. "This personal servant Xiaofuzi in Nian's house is also a wonderful person with a seven-trick exquisite heart, smooth and pleasing, although it doesn't look as steady and reliable as Xiaoshunzi, but he can't make mistakes everywhere when he speaks and does things, I heard that this person was picked out by Nian Qianyao who went to the internal affairs office that year, Yinzhen was also accommodating and stayed by Nian's side without objection, and he served Nian's properly and thoughtfully over the years, and won Nian's trust.

Xiaofuzi's words are not because Nian's deliberately put on a shelf to deliberately embarrass me, after all, it is not the first time I have interacted with Nian's, Nian's has never been this kind of temperament that does not know the height of the sky because he is pregnant. What's more, although my status in the mansion is not as high as Nian's, the weight of my words is higher than that of Nian's, even if I don't care about what happened before, just looking at my relationship with the Wulanala clan and having an heir, few of the servants and maids in the mansion dare to make a stumbling block at will. It's just that the rules and etiquette are like this, the status is here, not to mention the etiquette that the servants and maids dare not violate, and I have never thought of arrogating half a point.

Xiao Fuzi only went in for a while and then hurried out, with a bright flattering smile on his face, and greeted us in.

The house is lit with the fine silver bone charcoal from the Xishan kiln, just like the room suddenly feels warm like spring. Speaking of which, silver bone charcoal is usually held by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the use of the imperial court. However, Kangxi will ask the Internal Affairs Office to allocate some to the elder brothers' mansions every year after winter, and the number is not much, so it can only be used by the main owners. It's just that Yinzhen has always been frugal in terms of usage, and now Nian's is pregnant, so under the arrangement of the Wulanala clan, this year's batch of silver bone charcoal is basically all for Nian's side, except for a little in Hongli and Hongday's room, and other courtyards, including mine, use charcoal according to the routine, although it is not bad, but it cannot be compared with silver bone charcoal after all. Of course, there is nothing to fight about, now in this sensitive time, Nian and the child in her belly are more important than anything else, and the Ulanala clan is a person who understands the overall situation, so it is understandable for her to do so. (To be continued.) )