Kangxi 48 years

Kangxi's body has not yet recovered, and Yinzhen has stayed in the mansion less and less, often entering the palace day and night to use medicine with several other brothers who serve their emperor. Every time I come back, I either sit in the study or fall asleep, and I can't eat a few bites. I didn't hear anyone say that Kangxi's illness was improving, but I watched him become more angular, and his eyes were full of tired blue and black.

Occasionally, when he would return to the house late at night, I would bring a bowl of hot porridge into the study, but I was surprised to see Nian Qianyao flashing through the door. The two men were the same thin and tall, but they had different faces, the same only eyes, which belonged to the firmness of the man, flashing in such a dark night candlelight.

I exited the study, carefully closed the door, and went back to my room. I wasn't sure if Yinzhen was planning anything, but I knew that such a secret meeting should not be known to others, so I took a few little women and children into the garden early in the morning. At this time, we rarely see our own men, and perhaps the beauty and spaciousness of that garden will make them feel better, even if they hate me, it doesn't matter.

The Hongwan sister and brother are nine years old, their faces are still similar but their temperament is completely different, the bigger Hongwan loves to smile, the more like me, but Hongwan's cold appearance is more like Yinzhen than Honghui. The two sisters and brothers have a very good relationship, and they have a tacit understanding, even if one is as active as a rabbit and the other is quiet and doesn't talk much. Chang Hongwan hadn't opened her mouth yet, Hongwan had already blocked what she was going to say first, so anxious that her sister pulled his sleeve and jumped to her feet in anger, but he lowered his head and secretly laughed like his Amma.

In the garden, a few of us women would sit in the sunshine in the gazebo by the thawing water, just like we did in the small courtyard of the triad, watching the children who grew up read, write and play the piano. Song would occasionally join us, but he still rarely spoke but became quiet and indifferent.

The prayer kite is still close to the twilight, the two girls have shed the childishness of the year, and are ripening like two tempting fruits, but there is no lover who knows how to appreciate and taste. The man we share, at this moment, is tied to Kangxi in the palace with all his body and mind, where will there be time to enjoy the love of children.

Lan Si would always look at Shushen and sigh silently, his eyes full of anxiety and reluctance belonging to his mother. The 14-year-old daughter is the right age to marry in this era, but Yinzhen has never mentioned it, and Kangxi has no will. I hugged the well-behaved and docile Shushen and looked at Lan Si, who was a little complaining, and I could understand her feelings, but I couldn't agree.

I don't like such a young girl to marry and have children, at least to grow up a little more, even if it is another three years, but I can't say such things to Lan Si, and my kindness doesn't make her think that I am dragging down her daughter.

Throughout the New Year, whether in the palace or outside the palace, it is still lifeless, except for this garden where there are only women, children, cats and dogs, you can still experience a trace of sunshine.

At midnight on the twenty-second day of the first lunar month, I sat at the head of the bed and looked at the sleeping Hongwang, when I heard a hoarse squeak on the door outside, and the voice of the eyebrows and greetings sounded, Yinzhen actually came.

I put on my cloak and got ready to go out, but he approached, and before I could look up, his arms were wrapped around me, and his face was buried in my shoulders and neck, and the coldness quickly seeped into the light fabric and neckline. I stood in front of the bed and hugged him, for a long time, I heard his long sigh, his arms were still tightly wrapped around my waist, and my body was slowly relaxed from the tension.

Yinzhen's face slowly lifted up against my face, a little painful and itchy, I raised my hand to touch the beard that came out of his chin, and stood firmly under my fingertips. He pressed his forehead against me and looked at the bed for a while, then silently pulled the coat off my shoulders and put me on, and led me outside to put the cloak in my hand.

I don't know how long it has been since I slept peacefully in his arms, nor have I deliberately counted the days, but at this time, leaning on his chest and listening to his words, my heart was lowered and raised.

Kangxi decided to reinstate the crown prince, and he would announce it to the world later.

The prince who was locked up by him is about to re-enter the stage of history, but he will fall even harder in the near future.

Whether this is a decision made by Kangxi to appease his sons, or whether he is really reluctant to give up the beloved prince, I don't know, and I can't guess. From the day it began, it was predestined, and how it ended has long been recorded in the history I know.

Neither Yinzhen nor I mentioned Nian Qianyao, who entered Baylor Mansion that night, nor did I mention that I moved into the garden with his women and children the next day, but just hugged each other and felt the warmth that I had not seen for a long time. Such a quiet and simple time is less and less.

We didn't speak again, watching the night outside the window fade away, and the complete half-moon slowly faded away, but before the dawn of dawn, Yinzhen left, just like when he came, no one knew.

The women still live in the garden, watching the sun and the moon change, watching the spring flowers rush to bloom, and the tender green weeping willows gently brushing on the water, sparkling and shining in the sun. We women seem to have become accustomed to the scenery here, brick by brick, floor by pavilion, even flowers blooming and grateful, and water wrinkled by the spring breeze.

When we began to live here with peace of mind and were accustomed to life without men, we returned to the former Baylor Mansion collectively with Kangxi's will.

Now, it's time to call it the Prince's Palace.

The beautiful capital in March has finally ushered in a belated spring.

The crown prince was reinstated, and at the same time as the edict was issued to the world, Kangxi ordered the Zongren Mansion to seal Yinzhi, Yinzhen, and Yinqi as princes, and the seventh elder brother Yinyou and the tenth elder brother Yinqi were directly promoted to the county kings, and the ninth elder brother Yinyu, the twelfth elder brother Yinzhen and the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen were all Gushan Beizi. The only thing that remains unchanged is Yinxi, who is still the title of Baylor, and the other person is my brother, the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang, who is still an elder brother.

In last year's prince incident, Yinxiang was not implicated, so why did Yinzhen become a beizi, but Yinxiang is still a brother. I didn't understand but I knew I couldn't ask, and Yinzhen didn't explain, Yinxiang smiled and said that he didn't care about these at all. I can't figure out why Kangxi loves him so much, he takes him with him everywhere, and even Mount Tai lets him go to worship alone, why he is so stingy that he refuses to even give him a shell.

Yinxiang also has his own unhappiness, not because of the promotion to the knighthood, but because the youngest son who has the same birthday as him has only lived for more than four months. In the early winter, the snowflakes were born, and the spring flowers passed away together, and the little one passed away before he even had time to come up with a name. I didn't think kindly, it's okay, it's good that they weren't born with filial piety, otherwise, their year would be even more sad.

In April, just after the summer, Kangxi got up early and took his sons to Saiwai, Yinxiang was still with him, in addition to him, there were also the prince, the third master, the seventh, the eighth, the tenth and the fourteenth.

I felt that the atmosphere was full of indescribable weirdness, and I was scared, but there was nowhere to vent.

For Yinzhen, in addition to becoming a prince, there is also good news, he has cultivated Nian Qianyao for many years to become a cabinet bachelor, and soon promoted to the governor of Sichuan. For me, it was not good, because Nian Er left, leaving behind my sister and staying in the Prince's Mansion.

Anyone can see how much Nian Qianyao loves this little sister, and wherever she goes, just like Kangxi to Yinxiang, how can she be relieved to leave her alone in Beijing. This is not considered to be his loyalty to Yinzhen, and people are gone. Could it be that he is not worried at all that he will lose his sister and lose his army in the future?

I wondered if the day the mystery was finally revealed, General Nian would regret his decision today.

The little women in the house were happier than before they left, and occasionally they could hear their laughter coming from the courtyard. Even though they don't seem to like the little sister of the Nian family, they also understand that she is nothing now, just a similar orphan girl under the fence. Their happiness comes from the improvement of their status, even if their status is still low, they are also happy that their man has become a prince, even if the current prince has not been named by Kangxi in front of him.

The joyful days seem to cover up the pain of yesterday, and women are always easy to be sad and more satisfied.

I started to sew the wedding dress, and Yin Zhen looked at me curiously and asked me who I was going to make it for, and I told him that he was doing it for Shushen and Hongwan. He pursed the corners of his lips with a smile, sat down beside me with the book in his hand, watched the needle and thread keep passing through the bright red satin, and reluctantly took it from my hand and put it aside.

"Bang'er is only nine years old, how many years are you going to make this dress?"

I stared straight at him, looking for a kind of love called reluctance in his eyes, and it seemed to be, so I lowered my head and whispered: "Shushen is already fourteen, I hope she can grow up a little longer before she gets married, girls marry too early...... Not good. ”

Yin Zhen pulled me to lean on his shoulder, his voice was very low, and I tried to listen to understand what he was saying, "Eighteen years, you now say it's not good to marry me too early?"

I shook my head and rested on his shoulder, one hand on the belt behind his back, and the other hand traced the dragon pattern on his chest, five claws.

His hand was on my palm, fixed to his chest to shield the golden dragon, and he lowered his head as if looking at me and waiting for my answer.

I breathed a long sigh of relief and leaned against his neck again, before slowly speaking, "Many things are not defined by age, and some people don't necessarily understand what they want and what they want after living a lifetime, and they don't even know what they have given up, let alone the most nihilistic thing like feelings." Yinzhen, when I first married you, I didn't understand love, and I didn't have extravagant expectations. Although it was only half a year, I regret wasting so much time with you. If you can choose again, I will set you down early in the previous life, and I will be with you for the rest of my life. ”

"What else do you want besides me?" Yinzhen's chin rested on the top of my head, and his voice came in a muffled voice, "I remember when I was Baylor, you said that I would be a prince directly, and you want me to thank you then." Now, aren't you happy?"

I buried my face in his clothes and smiled helplessly, if he didn't mention it for so long, I'm afraid I would have to forget it, he seemed to take it seriously, thinking that I really wanted to be the prince of Fujin? Even if he became the emperor in the future and let me be the queen, it wasn't just a man and a woman, a husband and wife, what difference could there be.

"As long as you want it, I will find a way to give it to you, and I can do it if I say it. As he spoke, the palm of my back moved slightly behind my head and gently rubbed my hair.

"Yinzhen. I looked up at him, thinking about what was in my heart and said to him seriously, "I just want you, your children, and your family to be happy and healthy." There are so many things we want in this world, but these two things are the hardest. ”

Yin Zhen looked at me and nodded, pursed his thin lips for a long time before moving slightly, "Your body is better raised, there are indeed too many things during this time, you wait, I will take you to see your son in a few days." ”

"No, I know you're busy, and you don't have to go see him. As long as we don't go, he's safe, it's good, and I just want him to be good. ”

"Rest assured. ”

Regarding Honghui, I can still rest assured, at least Yinzhen protects him. He has already lost his son once, and I am sure he will not give anyone another chance to let him lose a second time.

As for the rest, take your time and look at it over time.

There is no need to change if you have no power to change, you can only wait and see what happens.