Originally, it was just a cold, but the condition has been good and bad, which made Yun Hui worried, and the doctor said that it was a heart disease and needed to be relieved. I am also a medical student, and I know in my heart that there is some truth in the words of the imperial doctor. The wind chill is not the real reason for the recurrence of the disease, it is the heart knot that really makes it difficult for me to sleep. This may be what is often referred to as depression.

When you think about it, you can't help but laugh at yourself, confined to this space all day long, and you can't seem to find anything to be happy in your mind except for those things that make people happy, and it's strange if you can't be depressed.

It dragged on until the fifteenth day of the first month. The New Year's flavor in the house is still strong, and it is festive. Because my health has not been very good, Yinzhen's attitude towards me is obviously not to treat me badly, so the meals in the dining room these days have not been deducted, and everything has been made up according to the rules that should be made. Even the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, desserts, and wine and food were delivered as usual.

I have been sick in bed for a long time, and my stomach is not easy to eat and drink, thinking that Yun Hui is the age of growing her body, and she also loves to eat Lantern Festival, so she doesn't care about her identity, except for the pastries that can be eaten, the rest is given to her to eat by herself, or let her send it to the person guarding the door to enjoy.

During the Lantern Festival, the house was lit up with lights, and the firecrackers were put on from noon to dinner. I heard that the Wulanala clan loves to watch plays, and specially invited the troupe to come in, and there is a riddle lantern festival at night, which is very lively.

The coldness of the garden contrasts sharply with the bustle outside. Listening to the people guarding the house drinking and eating without shying away from eating and chatting about those lively things, I felt more and more lonely in my heart.

"Yun Hui, let's guess the lantern riddle," I said to Yun Hui suddenly.

"Okay...... But the minions were illiterate. Yun Hui responded.

In order to stick to the rules, I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to change it after she shouted her sister and made a taboo, so the title became an honorific like Gege and a slave, but the relationship was as good as a sister, and there were no scruples.

I smiled and got up and took out a book from the bookshelf that looked like a book of lantern riddles, and said, "It's okay, I said, you guess, or if you think of a lantern riddle you've read before, tell me too." ”

On such days, Yunhui also loves to be lively and homesick, but she didn't dare to show it in front of me, and now she can have something to do to entertain herself, so she naturally happily agreed.

"Round and round, flat and flat, with an eye on the backbone...... Hit a daily utensil," I said, following the riddle in the book.

"Everyday utensils...... It's round and flat, and it still has eyes on its back? Oh my mother, isn't that a monster, who would use this thing......" Yun Hui thought about it and frowned and exclaimed.

"You girl, a big holiday, where did you come from, this is not covered, be careful of committing taboos. When I saw her expression, I laughed out loud and quipped.

Yun Hui also felt speechless when she heard it, spit out her tongue, and calmed down to think about what it was. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she asked, "Is it a pot lid?" It's the kind of big pot lid used on the stove, round and flat, with a small button cap on top. ”

I thought about it, and it felt a little similar, and I flipped to the riddle and looked at it, and smiled, and praised: "That's right, it's really foolish." ”

Yun Hui pouted and sneered: "Gege really doesn't praise people, where is it." ”

Looking at her smug look, she couldn't help but quip: "Then let's continue, if you can guess correctly, I will admit that you are not blind, you are really smart." ”

"Okay, let's talk quickly," Yun Hui also came to the spirit and urged.

Looking at this girl's pretty appearance, she suddenly remembered a lantern riddle she had read before, so she simply put down the book and said, "The slave scolds the master - type a clutch." ”

As soon as this mystery came out, I saw Yun Hui's little face wrinkled together, thought about it for a long time, pouted and sat down on the couch, and said negatively: "I know that Gege is used to bullying slaves, knowing that slaves are illiterate, and there is such a tricky riddle, how can a slave dare to scold the master, this slave is tired." ”

I looked at her with a smile and deliberately teased: "You see that you are not a slave scolding the master, aren't you?"

After speaking, he laughed out loud, and then sighed: "I originally wanted to teach you literacy when the days were more stable, but it hasn't been a few days since I entered the house, and I haven't taught it until now." In the end, I treated you badly, and I didn't let you live a good life with me for a few days. ”

The original pleasant atmosphere was ruined by my unexplained sadness. Yun Hui pursed her lips, her eyes turned red again, she endured the sourness in her heart, and whispered with relief: "Gege, don't say such things in the future, a few of us have never complained, but we just feel that we are useless, and we can't share Gege's worries." ”

He endured the pain in his heart, forced out a smile, and said, "It's me who is not good, and I mention these again, so that you will be sad together." Let's move on to the riddle. ”

Yun Hui bit her lip and nodded vigorously, followed me and asked, "What is the mystery of that 'slave scolding the master'?"

I thought about it, smiled and dipped my fingers in the tea and wrote three words on the table, "Slave is angry", and then pointed and read it to Yun Hui, and told her the answer to this mystery.

The atmosphere became cheerful again as the topic shifted, and the laughter that came from the house from time to time puzzled the people guarding the house, and they said that these two women could still laugh when they had fallen into such a field.

As he spoke, it was late at night. The lantern festival and banquet in the house also dispersed as the night deepened, and everything returned to calm.

After laughing for a long time, my mood was much better, and my spirit became sleepy. Just as Yun Hui was serving and lying down to rest, someone suddenly knocked on the door and said that Grandpa Su had sent something, so he had to put on his clothes again and get up, and returned to the couch to sit down, wondering why Su Peisheng was not waiting by Yinzhen's side to rest at this time, and he actually came to me to deliver something.

Just muttering in my heart, I saw Su Peisheng walking into the house with a palace lamp in his hand, and when he saw me on the couch, he bowed slightly, and said, "The master asked the slave to send this object to Gege." As he spoke, he handed the palace lantern to Yun Hui, and then handed it to me through her hand for a closer look.

The palace lamp was carefully taken and looked at. The border of the gold wire enamel is embedded with a six-sided glazed color screen, and the color screen is painted with various colorful auspicious patterns from the inside, and then it is revealed through the transparent glass on the front, which is very delicate and beautiful.

There are a few lines of fresh ink in the blank space on the front of the six-sided glazed color screen, of which five sides are written "Mandarin ducks are both playing in the water, butterflies are in love with flowers; I have thousands of tenderness, who can I be with in this life; red beans are lovesick seeds, planted in my heart in my previous life; waiting for fate to meet, enjoy spring, summer and autumn and winter - guess eight words", and the last side is mentioned "love and affection for a long time".

Looking at these lines of inscription, I was suddenly startled, and my mind returned to the Lantern Festival in the forty-first year of Kangxi. During the Lantern Festival that year, I went to the lantern festival with my sister Chun'er next door, and in order to get the glass screen lamp of Babao Zhai, I guessed fourteen lantern riddles in one go, but only the last one was stuck. And the riddle and the answer to the riddle are exactly the inscriptions written on this lantern now.

It turned out that he was the one who helped solve the last puzzle that day and asked the boss to send the lanterns. This answer came as a big surprise to me. I still remember that the note that day was just a quick glance, and after I went back, I put it in the box with the lanterns and didn't take it out again. Later, when I entered Baylor House, I didn't bring these things with me before I got married, and I gradually forgot them. Although I have seen Yinzhen's handwriting many times after entering the house, I also feel very familiar, but after all, I have not studied these calligraphy and paintings, so I have not thought about it.

Holding the lamp, he had some indescribable feelings in his heart, and asked Su Peisheng, "What does he mean by letting you send this?"

Su Peisheng lowered his eyes and smiled, and replied respectfully: "The master and Fujin went to the palace with Concubine De to enjoy the lanterns today, but it happened that Babaozhai made a new batch of palace lamps this year, and the emperor liked it tightly, saying that it was a good style and a good color, so people hung a lantern riddle under each lamp, and said that if anyone guessed the riddle correctly, they could get the corresponding palace lantern." Originally, the master saw that the masters of the palace and the princes were all interested in scrambling, and he didn't want to join in the excitement. But when he saw the riddle on the palace lamp, the master took it and guessed the riddle, and after returning home, he said that Gege was too deserted, and he should add some color anyway, and he also inscribed the riddle and the riddle on it with his own hands, and instructed the slave to send it to Gege while the festival was not over. “

Su Peisheng's tone of voice was very calm, and his words hinted at Yinzhen's intentions for me everywhere. In the end, he rarely persuaded directly: "The slave has a saying, and Gege is not strange to listen to." The slave can actually see that Gege has a heart for the master, and the master really values this heart, but Gege really understands the master's heart. Gege is young, and it is reasonable that he doesn't understand this, but the master is the master after all, and it is impossible to always stay where he is and wait for Gege to understand this thought. Gege is young now, and he doesn't feel anything, but when he gets older, he has no one to rely on in this mansion, who else can he count on? If he really does these things again, does Gege think that he will still have the luck of this time by then? Even if Gege doesn't think about himself, he should think about the people around him and the people at home, right?"

Su Peisheng's words are reasonable, so I can't refute them. He is not a person who talks a lot, and I don't know if he said these words out of his own kindness to me, or if he gave me persuasion with Yinzhen's acquiescence.

Holding the palace lamp, and then thinking about what Xiao Shunzi asked Yun Hui to bring, and what Su Peisheng said in front of him. I was suddenly relieved.

Whether it is Xiao Shunzi or Su Peisheng, their words should be instructed by Yinzhen. Just to tell me that he is still waiting for me to turn back, waiting for me to let go of my stubbornness. It's just that I can't wait too long, because it's the new year's draft soon, Kangxi is forty-three years, it happens to be the year of the general election, and when the time comes, it will be indispensable to refer to the gift of marriage, and when the newcomer enters the house, how long can he wait for me.

Thinking of the mansion that was about to become lively, I showed a wry smile and said to Su Peisheng: "I understand the kindness of Father-in-law Su. I also understand his thoughts and kindness, but with my character, I can't compromise after all. It is certainly right to find a support for yourself in this mansion, but if, as you said, there are more people in the mansion in the future, and the affection will fade after a long time, then can this reliance still be reliable?

After saying this, I handed over the palace lantern to Yun Hui to collect, and said to Su Peisheng: "I am tired of my father-in-law's hard work today, can I think about this matter again?"

Su Peisheng saw that I listened to those words, but he still had such an attitude, so he had to sigh and say, "Gege should really think about it, don't regret it in the future." ”

I nodded, and Su Peisheng turned around and left. Yun Hui bit her lip and stopped talking.

I looked at Yun Hui's appearance and knew what she wanted to say, but I motioned to her not to say it, shook my head and said, "Don't persuade me, there are some things that I have to wait for myself to figure it out, and I will never regret it in the future." ”