12. Year

Qianqing Palace, East Warm Pavilion.

Liang Jiugong was guarding from afar, and the other palace maids and eunuchs were all driven away, and there was no figure within ten zhang of Dongnuan Pavilion.

Liang Jiugong was wearing the royal mink sheepskin and shoulders, and his hands trembled. It's coming to the New Year, and it's getting colder and colder, and he's frozen into popsicles outside the station.

Phew, that little is really climbing up again.

He was in his stomach, and suddenly saw the door of the Dongnuan Pavilion gently pushing open the crack, he hurriedly stepped over, and said with a distressed face: "Good boy, are you tired?" Go back to the house, ask your aunt to stew something for you, look at this little face. ”

Zhou promised to turn around and close the door gently, his face was almost transparent in the winter sun, Liang Jiugong walked down, thinking that this is what skin is like clotted fat, right? It's really like lard, so white that you can't see a trace of blood.

Zhou promised to smile lightly, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and she said softly: "Waiting for the long live lord, the slave and maid are not tired." ”

Liang Jiugong smiled, isn't his heart tired? That's a dragon spirit! I don't know what fresh moves this little lady has learned outside, every time the Lord calls her to wait, she throws people away, and last time there was a little eunuch who passed in front of the window without long eyes, so that the people inside saw the shadow, and the Lord of Long Live directly called to drag it out.

Thinking of that child, Liang Jiugong couldn't help but sigh. What a child, he still watched it go with his own eyes. Long live the Lord said that he couldn't see blood during the New Year, and he gave birth to nineteen additional officials on his face before sending people away.

It's also because this method is too damaging to yin morality, so he posted one, and read a word to add an official to the knight, and his heart is a good child, and he will have a good baby in the next life, let's not do this errand for waiting people, grandpa will send you away, don't look back.

Seeing Zhou Gong walking away, Liang Jiugong sneered, he really had a human face in vain. When the little eunuch was dragged down, she didn't say a word. At this time, it was difficult for these eunuchs to plead for mercy, she was waiting for the Long Live Lord, and it was time for her to stand up, so she pretended to be dead.

Phew, no wonder she pleaded alone last time she was carried out, and when she came back this time, he would see who else would pay attention to her?

Zhou Mei returned to the courtyard of the promisers, and when she saw her in the courtyard, everyone suddenly flashed away.

She smiled lightly, knowing in her heart that she had suddenly come back again, and it was almost the same for people here to see someone who thought she was dead crawling back, and not to think of her as a dead ghost.

If they don't have a weak heart, what are they hiding?

When she returned, she was still living in the same house. When she moved out, Long Live Lord went on a southern tour, and there was no one in the palace. It just so happened that everything was changed after she left, and she could still smell the paint when she moved back.

Close the door and sit in front of the dresser, the bronze mirror reflects the pale and thin person, which has a unique charm. She touched her face, Long live Ye just likes her like this, right?

The illness made her body never recover, and she originally wanted to come back to be favored, and then find a doctor to take a good look and prescribe a few doses of medicine to make up for it.

But if Banzai Ye likes it, she won't drink medicine. People talk too much in this life, and the situation is good for more than ten years, and people will also survive for more than ten years. At this time, it is good to be old to enjoy happiness. It's not good at this time, so it's better to just go and save yourself a lifetime.

She looked in the mirror and smiled as if with infinite sorrow, long live the Lord pity her, right?

That day, she deliberately waited for the Long Live Lord to come back on the way, she didn't wear a hairpin on her head, only a black bun, and wore an old toad green robe, the color of the robe was old, dark as black, but it could show off her skin as white as jade.

When the Long Live Lord saw her stop and asked someone to call her over, she knelt in front of the Long Live Lord, raised her face and said inexplicably: "God is pitiful, so I called Mei'er to see the Long Live Lord again." ”

Long live the elder eyebrows did not move, and said, "Mei'er? "I can't seem to remember who she is.

She was up and down at the time, if this move was wrong, the end would be to be dragged down and wait for death.

Fortunately, Long Live Lord closed his eyes as if thinking for a while, and then said, "Well, I remembered." Eyebrows up, it's a cold day, what are you doing here? ”

She got up in surprise, Long Live Ye actually took her hand, she helped Long Live Lord back to Qianqing Palace, and moved back that night.

Thinking of Shuang'er's expressions, Zhou Mei wanted to laugh.

She opened the dressing box, and inside was the jewelry that Shuang'er had returned. But she doesn't wear them anymore. That day, she only wore a bun, and she didn't even wear a ring or earrings, but Long Live seemed to like it very much. From that day on, she waited for Banzai Ye and stopped wearing jewelry.

This is not appropriate, the palace rules are accompanied by women, and they must be dressed up. If she calls her snub like this, Mama can teach her a lesson.

But in this world, long live the Lord is the big rule.

Since she didn't wear jewelry to wait for the Long Live Lord, the palace maid in the Qianqing Palace promised to have less and less jewelry on her body, and some people only wore a red rope on their wrists to celebrate the New Year.

There are also people who guess whether the Lord Banzai will lift her up and let her live in the back. There are also people who use good concubines and Yonghe Palace to test her. There is a faint intention to take refuge in her.

But Zhou Mei knew that Long Live Lord would not send her to the harem.

Even the Wei clan and the Wu Ya clan would not be as blessed as her. In this world, which concubine reads the excerpt for the Long Live Lord? Long live the Lord believes that she is like this.

She is a slave of the Long Live Lord, and when the Long Live Lord is loyal, the Long Live Lord will only believe her if he knows.

Zhou Mei felt that his heart was beating a little again, and he was also flustered, as if he was restless. She hurriedly took out a small porcelain bottle from the makeup box, poured out a handful of calming pills and swallowed it, and it took a while before she felt better.

She looked at the empty medicine bottle in her hand again, and thought that this medicine was really becoming more and more unacceptable. This is the New Year, don't call the doctor, and wait for the year later, she will ask the doctor to give her a few bottles.

It's another New Year's feast. In Yonghe Palace, Concubine De and Concubine Cheng were asking a few daughters-in-law to accompany them to gamble, and they were surrounded by funny people, and bursts of laughter and laughter could even be heard outside the palace.

Concubine Cheng smiled and threw the dice and said, "It's amazing! The mother is lucky! ”

Concubine De has won more than a dozen in a row, even if she knows that others are letting her, she can't keep her mouth shut. Hearing what Concubine Cheng said, she said: "Bring you Cheng Niangniang a bowl of milk, let her eat hard, and I can win her!" ”

The room burst into laughter.

After an afternoon meal, I played for a while to eat, and fireworks began to go off outside.

The juniors are all going to leave the palace, and Concubine De will no longer keep them, and the game will be dispersed. Before leaving, she stopped Sifujin and said a few private words: "There are many people today, so I don't bother to ask you." Why didn't the Li family in your house come in? But what's wrong with you? ”

For festivals like New Year's festivals, Fang Fujin comes in with face, and no one will ask if he doesn't come in. After all, there is Fujin, and it is enough to have a start in a house for major events such as kowtowing, and the side Fujin can be followed by lifting.

But Concubine De knew that she had given birth to this fourth child, and it was not really a problem, and he would definitely not allow Fujin in his house not to come in.

I saw Sifujin smile and said: "She has a body, she just got good news, and our lord was also a little nervous, so he told her not to come in and make trouble for her mother." ”

Concubine De was not interested in this kind of little vinegar and sour words, but she only heard that the Li family had good news, and before there was an example of Ergege's premature birth, she sighed: "Since this is the case, the fourth child should be careful." You go back and take care of it a little more, everything is not as big as the child. ”

The Li family will continue to have children if they are favored. Although Concubine De was worried that she would not give birth to the child well, she thought that except for Ergege, Hongyu and the third elder brother seemed to be in good health. Ergege was probably young and inexperienced at that time, and this is the fourth, so it won't be okay.

Thinking of the grid that gave the fourth finger to the old man after the draft, why haven't you heard of receiving it into the house?

Sifujin was a little embarrassed this time and said: "Our master said that there are many things to do in the New Year, and when he is busy with this, he will call her in next year." ”

Concubine De couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, and she didn't say more, lest Sifujin's face couldn't go up and down, and nodded: "Come on, I won't delay you, let's talk about it tomorrow if we have something to say, let's go back." ”

After Sifujin left, Concubine De sat down to rest, and said with a smile in her heart: I can't see that the fourth child still has this infatuation.

She has also been favored by the emperor, even if there are three thousand harem emperors, the emperor will favor one or two in her heart, although she can't see what the emperor is like when he gets along with other concubines, but she knows that she can sit on the throne of the lord of Yonghe Palace, and she can't do it without the emperor's favoritism.

It's just that the emperor's heart is more elusive than the clouds in the sky in June, and no one can hold a cloud or control which sky it rains.

I heard that the emperor favored the Qianqing Palace and agreed, and asked her to wait almost every day, and she couldn't leave anyone for a day.

Concubine De just smiled when she heard it. Is there less favored by the emperor in this palace? There are far Hui and Rong concubines, and they are compared to Queen Xiaocheng to have children, can they do it without the emperor's preference?

There is a good concubine Wei in the near future, Xin Zheku was born, gave birth to Babeile and hugged Concubine Hui, and now he has become a concubine, I heard that he is about to be promoted to the concubine position. This is the person the emperor put on the tip of his heart.

If this promise really has that creation, the emperor will not let her stay in the Qianqing Palace all the time. Whether it's a real pet or a fake pet, you'll know it later.

Then, Concubine De thought of Sifujin again, could this child's brain be a stone? It's not stupid to look at, why is it just not enlightened? Competing for favor, trying to make it to the man's side, what's the use of her sour sentences here? It's only right to be sour until the fourth child.

No matter how many births Li has, it will not prevent her from giving birth to children. Isn't one born and the other not born? When the two are born, the heirs will prosper, and the children in the house will increase.

On the way out of the palace, Fu Jin sat in the car, listening to the sound of the hooves of the four masters next to the mule cart, and it seemed to knock on her heart.

Li had good news again, it was like a muffled thunder hitting her heart, shaking her whole body in unbearable pain.

In a blink of an eye, she has been married to the fourth master for ten years. In the past ten years, when I look back, I realize that life has passed amazingly. It was as if she hadn't even noticed it, and the decade had passed.

But she and the fourth master are still so unfamiliar.

It seemed that she was the only one living in the main courtyard forever. She regretted it, only to find that it was too late. Not anymore.

Before, when the fourth master was young, she didn't have time to get along with him. Now, the fourth master has lost interest in the backyard, and he has put all his energy outside the mansion, the court. Back in the house, the children also took up most of his time. For the rest, he will only go back to the East Courtyard and have dinner and rest with the Li family.

He no longer takes the time to get to know other women and accept them. He had no interest and no time.

Only then did Fu Jin understand what his mother told her before she got married, for men, no matter how many women there are, there is no difference. So E-Niang never felt sad for Amma to pamper the little girl, because she knew that this group of little girls Amma was nothing in her eyes, and she couldn't even call her name after a few months. This one goes and that one comes, no matter how much she comes, it's just a pastime, only she is the mistress of the house, and Ama has a name in her eyes, so what kind of intentions does she have?

The same is true of the fourth master now. He no longer spends a lot of time in the house like he did when he was younger, communicating with her, and being curious about Laigege. For him, these are no longer attractive. He no longer wastes time and energy in the backyard.

Clothes are not as good, and people are not as good as old.

The Li family is the old man of the fourth master. The fourth master is comfortable with her, the Li family has been waiting for him for ten years, and the two have already had a tacit understanding, so they don't have to bother to test their every move, and they don't have to talk more.

The more clearly Fu Jin can see, the more uncomfortable the person becomes. Weishenme won't wake her up until ten years later? How many opportunities did she waste in those ten years? How many times have you missed the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart relationship with the fourth master? It's too late.

In the eyes of the fourth master, she is already a 'Fujin', and she is only a 'Fujin'.

It can't be changed anymore.

Fu Jin took a deep breath, she didn't admit defeat. Even if she is only a blessing, she has the opportunity to seize the fourth master again. Li got the first opportunity, but he may not be able to laugh last.

She can't admit defeat, she still has Honghui, she can't afford to lose.

When he arrived at the mansion gate, the fourth master whipped and said: "Drive Fujin and their car to the back, prepare the soft sedan car, and don't let Gege and his brothers blow the wind." ”

Fu Jin lifted the curtain of the car at this time and glanced at the fourth master.

The fourth master looked at her, nodded slightly, and waited for the car to drive to the back door, he dismounted and entered through the front door, and said in his heart: I don't know what happened to Yonghe Palace? What did Fujin hear? Or does the mother have orders?

When he arrived at the main courtyard, Fu Jin had already returned and changed his clothes. As soon as he entered the door, she stood up to greet him and said, "Have you prepared a bowl of milk, and you will use a bowl of warmth?" A cold wind blew all the way. ”

The fourth master nodded, and Mama Zhuang immediately sent two bowls of hot milk.

He took a sip and put down the bowl to look at Fu Jin inquiringly.

Fu Jin originally wanted him to use a bowl of hot milk after he came in, and when he was sweating hot, he just changed his clothes, and then soaked his feet, so he naturally rested here. He wondered what she had called him for.

What's the matter?

Fu Jin had to find out something temporarily: "Today, Niang Niang asked why Fu Jin didn't enter the palace......

The fourth master smiled: "You didn't have time to tell Niangniang?" It's a happy event, and I'm going to see my mother in person tomorrow. ”

Fu Jin smiled, lowered his head and said: "I told Niangniang, Niangniang is also happy for the master, let the side Fujin take care of it." ”

The fourth master nodded and smiled, and continued to look at Fujin.

Fu Jin really has nothing to say, Yonghe Palace never talks about the palace or other people's gossip, even if Niangniang and Cheng Concubine are talking, when they see these juniors entering, they will immediately shut up and change the topic, and she can't even talk about a temporary gossip.

I had to say: "Niangniang wants me to tell my lord, it's been cold recently, and I want my lord to pay attention to his body and don't catch a cold." ”

The fourth master stood up and listened with a solemn face, sat down and said with a smile: "Niangniang is a piece of compassion, and she has worked hard." ”

He also saw that Fu Jin wanted to keep him because he was talking so much, and he also wanted to stay close to Fu Jin. But seeing Fu Jin like this, he is afraid that he will be Dunlun if he stays, and Fu Jin is obviously sour about Su Su, and it is estimated that he will behave in front of him, and he will be comforted and appeased......

After a tiring day, he really didn't have the energy. And you have to wake up early tomorrow morning.

The fourth master thought about it, but he still got up, and said stubbornly under Fu Jin's slightly sad gaze: "Fu Jin rest, get up early tomorrow, the master will go to the study to rest, and get up from there in the morning." ”

almost escaped from the desert of the main courtyard, and after coming out, the fourth master wanted to laugh, it was really ...... Women can't stand being left out in the cold, those who are close are untamed, and those who are far away are resentful.

It's really worrying.

It's just that it's Fujin after all, and it's not inferior to Gege and others.

The fourth master breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that after waiting for this while, let's comfort her well. How proud Fujin was before, he can't bear the loneliness now. It's just a coincidence that now he has too many things on him, and he no longer has the energy to entangle with her. I hope she understands. He still trusted her.

Besides, he is used to being so blessed, if he changes his appearance, he will not be used to it.

The next day, another big family went to the palace for the New Year.

Li Wei stayed at home alone, feeling extremely self-conscious!

Momofuku and Zaohua both lay on her couch, and she drew several modern sketches with an eyebrow pencil, and called the jade bottle to recognize it for a long time, from hydrangeas to silk balls to chrysanthemums, but no one guessed the dog.

Li Wei was anxious and pointed out, "How can this be a chrysanthemum?" "That's a lot!

The jade bottle pointed to her and drew wisps of dog hair and said, "Aren't these petals?" ”

That's obviously the hair on Momoeku and Creation!

However, she didn't have to refer to the deer as Ma Dujun, seeing that the jade bottle really didn't recognize, she could only admit that her painting skills were not superb, she looked at the eyebrow pencil in her hand and the drawing paper in front of her, and affirmed: "It must be this is not good, too thin and too soft to paint!" And this paper, soft collapse is not a little hard! ”

The jade bottle followed and said, "That's it!" "I thought to myself that the eyebrow pencil would be harder, hard paper...... Is it okay to pulp?

At this time, Zhao Quanbao came in and said: "Master, your two uncles have arrived and said that they want to give you a New Year's greeting!" "Before, the fourth master mentioned that he would come in to meet again, Zhao Quanbao told the porter, this time the porter will keep people drinking tea and report inside.

Li Wei no longer tossed her sketch, and said curiously: "Please come in, uncles, what did they bring me?" ”

Zhao Quanbao said with a smile: "The slave didn't see it in person, and I heard the porter say that it was like carrying a box, and there was a sugar painting in it." ”

The uncles wanted to sell a good job, but the concierge had to be opened. The uncles didn't dare to hard top, so they opened it for people to take a look. The porter praised this sugar painting for being so exquisite, and looked at this small house as if it was real, and said in his heart: You are not poor! Let's take a look at the side Fujin and mention a few sugar paintings! This is really something he has never seen on the stage.

But if you send it from your family, even a chicken feather is also happy, maybe you can tie a shuttlecock. This is called courtesy and affection.