October 13, Gold Festival.

Before the crossing, Li Wei had never heard of this festival. After passing through, I found that at this time of year, the Manchurians would celebrate the gold festival in a grand way. This is the great day when Huang Taiji changed 'Jurchen' to 'Manchuria' and called the emperor the founding of the country.

It's called National Day, a seven-day holiday!

So at three o'clock in the morning that day, Li Wei got up. The fourth master was afraid that she wouldn't be able to get up, so he deliberately rested here last night. In October, it's a bit cold when it's hot and it's cold, especially at night.

Li Wei shivered when she crawled out of the bed, and the jade bottle wrapped her in a big cotton robe, and helped her up and dressed with the jade pot. After the fourth master got up, he went to the west side room and gave her the main house. The eldest grandmother had already led someone to prepare the side blessing and Jin crown clothes, and when she finished washing, she waited for her to put on the layers of auspicious clothes outside here, and then sat down and put on the crown.

The crown was like a large hat, with something like a golden arrow standing in the center, and a ruby the size of a pigeon's egg. The body is auspicious, with nine pythons and five claws, and he is really powerful. Li Wei felt that when she was dressed like this, her image instantly became taller.

It's okay to just sit down, but when she stands up, she carries her five-month-old belly, and she feels that her body is too heavy and shaky when she moves. The eldest grandmother and the jade bottle supported her left and right, and when they went out, they sat in a soft sedan chair and carried them all the way to the gate to get on the car.

The fourth master plans to go to the two elder brothers in the family, so it is not good to leave the three grids of the Song family, after all, she is as big as Hong S, and there are three mule carts in front of the door. Fujin has already gotten into the car, and Li Weiche is in second place. Honghui and the fourth master rode together, and the rest of the children sat in a big car.

Seeing that everyone was here, the fourth master glanced at Honghui, the two of them looked at each other, Honghui reassured Amma, he held the reins in his hand tightly. The fourth master nodded appreciatively, and whipped up: "Let's go!" ”

In the car, Li Wei sat on both sides of the big mama and the jade bottle. The jade bottle held the cloak in her arms, and the eldest grandmother explained carefully: "The master doesn't have to be nervous when he gets there, the slaves and maids will always follow." At that time, he will be separated from Fujin, and Fujin will kneel in front of him, and the master will kneel in the back place with the side Fujin. This person will take a little longer, and it will be a little windy at first, so the master will hold on and get through. ”

Li Wei took a deep breath. She rehearsed with the eldest grandmother half a month ago. The fourth master went to the Taihe Palace, and the ladies of the clan went to Kunning Palace. The hard thing is that when everyone queues up to stand for work, it is not in the hall, but in the large square outside the hall.

When you arrive at the place, you will first stand up according to your knighthood. Then wait until the emperor's side is finished, praise the heavens, the earth, the ancestors, and then look forward to a better future. At this time, they are to keep kneeling. Li Wei and their harem couldn't hear the emperor's voice, so the eunuchs would pass the emperor's words to the back one by one, shouting and kneeling, everyone kneeling, shouting, everyone rising again.

According to conservative estimates, it will take about half an hour to kneel.

Li Wei has to kneel for half an hour every day these days, and if she doesn't practice, she will definitely not be able to kneel today.

In other words, not everyone can participate in this gold festival, at least not the Hanchens. Although it is a celebration of the whole world, there are not so many people who are qualified to kneel in the Taihe Palace.

When the Li family was in the family, everyone just sat down to have a lively meal together on the Gold Festival, and Li Wei remembered that the family would roast a whole sheep that day, which was enough to eat for two or three days.

There will probably be sheep to eat today, but I will have to wait until I get home.

Recalling the delicious roasted whole sheep, Li Wei stood in the crowd in front of Kunning Palace, and Na Lashi stood behind her, not to mention that the two were talking, it was impossible to even look at each other. The Fujin people stood in front of them, and they stood a little to the left, and Li Wei found that the side Fujin added up to twice as many as the Fujin of Chang.

Blowing a small cold wind, standing in darkness from the sky and earth to the dawn of the morning. When the sun rises slowly from the horizon, it brings not only light, but also warmth. Even when the sun has just risen, it brings warmth. Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt that there was strength in her body.

The eunuch in front of the standing line was so cold that he shrunk his neck, but he still tried to take a deep breath, and shouted in a loud voice: "Kneel!" ”

The little palace maids quietly ran over and put a mat in front of everyone. With the sound of kneeling, everyone knelt down in unison.

As soon as Li Wei knelt down, she felt like she was kneeling on a ball of soft and thick cotton flowers, and when she looked down, her knees were deeply sunk into the cushion. To her surprise, after kneeling for a while, she found that the mat was actually hot!

Outside the Kunning Palace, the jade bottle waited anxiously with a cloak. The eldest grandmother sat in the small tea room of Kunning Palace, holding hot tea in her hand and six plates of dim sum in front of her. There were two grandmothers sitting beside her, and when she heard the eunuch shouting to kneel, she looked up intently in the direction of the square. A grandmother wearing ** green shoulders smiled: "Old sister, don't worry. We have all explained, the mat is thickened by three layers, and there are eight copper dates sewn in it, not to mention kneeling for half an hour, kneeling all morning will be fine. ”

The other grandmother wearing jujube red shoulders smiled and didn't say anything, but the big mama would not ignore her, the cushion was sewn by the little palace maid, but the copper jujube was specially found by her. Don't look at it just the size of a red date, put wormwood in it can burn for an hour or two. The outer edge of the copper jujube mat, as long as the master does not deliberately kneel to the side, he will not be able to kneel on her, and he will not kneel and break his legs.

Maybe after kneeling, she didn't know that the mat weishenme would heat up.

The eldest grandmother looked at her with a smile, there are some things that don't need to be said, as soon as the eyes are paired, everyone understands.

Mama Jujube Red Kan Shoulder made her laugh, and she was also proud in her heart.

**When the two of them looked at each other, they kept lowering their heads to drink tea, and when these two eyes were removed, she just raised her head, and the silence just now was fake, and laughed and teased the eldest grandmother: "I also accompanied Brother out of the palace to retire, how did you go to wait for others?" ”

used to be waiting for the elder brother, but now he is waiting for a side Fujin, and it is not a Fujin. No matter how you look at it, it's all going downhill.

"Could it be that you don't have long eyes and annoy the serious master?" **Green Shoulder Mama quipped. Of course, the serious master is Fujin.

Zao Hongkan Shoulder Mama glanced at the eldest mama and said to ** Green: "You think she is a fool? I'm afraid that she doesn't look down on others, not because people don't look down on her. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and waited for the big grandmother to speak.

After talking for a long time, these two just want to know that the eldest grandmother is waiting for this side Fujin so hard, is this side Fujin particularly capable of subduing her?

The eldest grandmother rolled her eyes and laughed, "Don't guess. I am wholeheartedly serving our master, of course, I will follow whoever the master wants me to follow. ”

The two grandmothers laughed together, and Zao Hong said, "Yes." This is not as smart as a man, so you are following this now, quite capable? ”

The eldest grandmother said: "I haven't seen much ability, but the luck is very prosperous." ”

"It's good to be lucky." Midori said, "This luck is stronger than life." How many lives are not lucky enough to get stuck here? Have we seen less? ”

They have been trapped in the palace all their lives, and their former heads are like filial piety to the queen, what a big favor, they can't bear their lives. It's like Tong Jia's family came in a few, who can say that their lives are bad? But now he didn't even have a son left. After a hundred years of the emperor, this wealth will not be able to grow.

Seeing that there are many people, the masters are just one coming and one leaving, and there are many more people falling down than rising.

The eldest grandmother lowered her head to drink tea, and the jujube red also shut up, only ** green also said, she said: "I can see it." Good life is not really good, after being popular, it may not be the one with good fate, but it is definitely the lucky one. She smiled at the eldest grandmother, "Your eyes are so sharp, I see ...... You also recognized it before you started, right? ”

The eldest grandmother smiled and did not answer.

After a while, ** Green left, and the eldest grandmother breathed a sigh of relief, put down the tea bowl and said: "If I don't have to ask her, I really don't want to deal with her." ”

Zao Hong smiled and changed the bowl of boiling tea for the eldest grandmother, and said, "I think she said it was not bad." Your eyes are always sharp. ”

The eldest grandmother glared at her and said, "Are you stupid to me?" If I can choose, I will wait for my brother to grow old, what blessings will I not enjoy? Do you have to go through the trouble to hold another one? After speaking, she sighed deeply: "But what can I do?" When the master spoke, he just asked me to feed the horses and cattle, and I would go happily. ”

Zao Hong said: "If you really don't want to do it, it's not difficult to find a way to get out." ”

The eldest grandmother squinted her eyes and smiled proudly, and said, "Why bother? If you get out, you may not be better than you are. I can still do it, but I can't push the master's work out. I don't want to retire so early. Since he did it, it's a dou, and I can push him up. ”

She put down the tea bowl, took out a purse from her arms and stuffed it into her hand. As soon as the sleeves of the two touched, Zao Hongkan put his hand into the sleeve and rolled it up, pinched the purse, and smiled with satisfaction.

The eldest grandmother approached her and whispered: "Ten taels of silver a piece, this is a good Yunnan tobacco." With this, can you tell me the truth, what do the Wang and Geng families mean? ”

In last year's general election, although Concubine De didn't say anything, she revealed that she wanted to choose a few people for the fourth master and the fourteenth elder brother. The eldest grandmother inquired about a Wang family, and a Geng family turned the New Year to be sixteen, as if they were preparing for the fourth master. Zaohong Kan shouldered Mama waited in the Chuxiu Palace, and she was taught by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Wang and Geng are now holding them in her hands.

Zaohong Kan's shoulder mama pinched the tobacco and thought about it: "Wang's is not worth mentioning, he looks okay, but he has a bad temperament." Geng is a little scheming, and he looks similar. If you don't feel at ease, I'm going to teach them Hengzhu, and it's not difficult to do something. It's just that if both of them have an accident, it will definitely not work, one more. ”

She thought that the eldest grandmother must be worried about the Geng family, but who knew that the eldest grandmother said: "Then that Wang's." ”

Looking at the complicated eyes of Mama Zaohongkan, the eldest mama didn't explain much. Geng's scheming lost half of it, and it was not easy to draw conclusions if Wang hadn't really seen her, but the bad temperament in the eyes of the grandmothers was the same, what if it was also like Master Li, maybe it would fall into the eyes of the fourth master?

There are four women in the yard, and the fourth master obviously only spoils one and doesn't like to show mercy everywhere. It just so happened that Master Li was pregnant, and the fourth master must have found someone to come out and spoil him. Any one is fine, it must not be Wang's.

Zaohong Kan Shoulder smiled and said, "Leave it to me." ”

The two drank tea for a while, and the jujube red shoulder grandmother also left. Let the little eunuch come in and let them talk in the tea room, and said with a smile: "Say hello to Mama, this tea still tastes?" It didn't take long for Xiao Gang to learn to make tea, and he was afraid that he would not be able to wait for the master, thanks to the fact that there was a grandmother to try his skills for Xiao. ”

It seems that he really asked his grandmother to come in to try the taste of tea just now, and no one has ever come at all.

The eldest grandmother gave him a purse, and the little eunuch put the purse close to the tip of his nose and sniffed it violently, and the smell of snuff almost aroused his tears, he quickly turned his head and sneezed, and thanked him: "What a good thing!" The villain's father loves this, the villain wants to buy it to honor his old man, and how many people are entrusted to cheat the little with second-class goods, or grandma is a real person. ”

The eldest grandmother hummed and praised lightly: "Your tea is a little hot." ”

The little eunuch bowed again and again, helped the eldest grandmother out, and said with a smile: "It's still the old way, when the grandmother wants to taste the villain's tea, just come!" Xiao must do his best to wait for a good mama! Mama, go slowly! Watch your step! ”

After kneeling for a long time, Li Wei went to Yonghe Palace with Fujin to kowtow to the banquet, and it took a day to go home. As soon as she sat in the car, she felt stiff all over her body, leaned back against the wall of the car, closed her eyes and said weakly: "Go back and let someone carry me back, I won't eat at night." I'm going to sleep when I get back. ”

The jade bottle and the big grandmother helped her together, but she still couldn't lie down in the car. Seeing that she was tired like this, the eldest grandmother frowned, and said to the jade bottle: "Go back and call the doctor first, and I will follow the master." ”

The jade bottle nodded repeatedly.

When she arrived at the gate of the house, the fourth master looked back at Li Wei's car, and said a few words to Su Peisheng, and her car drove directly to the back door, drove in through the back door, passed through the lower room, the dining room, and stopped in the aisle with only two doors away from the east courtyard.

The jade bottle jumped out of the car and was about to call someone to carry the soft sedan chair, but he saw the fourth master striding over, he hadn't changed his clothes yet, he only took off his hat. It looks like he came back from the front yard and came straight over here to wait.

The fourth master leaned into the car, took her out directly, and carried her all the way to the east courtyard. Ergege greeted him, and he said, "Erhe goes back to the house, your mother is fine." ”

The doctor has already been invited by Zhang Bao, so he is waiting here.

Li Wei was just tired, not asleep. As soon as the fourth master hugged her, she knew, and when she saw him so nervous, she comforted him: "I'm fine, I just don't move often, so I'm tired." Just take a break. ”

The fourth master carried her away, leaning against her with his forehead, and he was relieved when he felt that he was not feverish.

When I got to the house, I put her on the couch. A few jade bottles came up to take off the auspicious clothes for her, and at this time, they didn't care how valuable the clothes were. After packing up and inviting the doctor in, the fourth master stood next to him, no need to shy away, the doctor looked at her knee with courage, pressed his hand around the knee, and said: "It's not a big problem, it's just that the knees are swollen, and it doesn't look like it's cold." ”

Li Wei pulled the fourth master's hand and said, "It's really okay, that mat is very thick, and it's still hot." I knelt for so long, and it was all warm. "It made her want to sleep.

The fourth master patted her hand and asked the doctor, "It really doesn't matter?" ”

The doctor said: "Let's take a look tonight, the master's existing body is not good for medicine." By this time tomorrow, I will massage the blood, and I can only ignore it for now. "If you hurt your knee, you can't apply a cold compress. If this master does not happen to be pregnant with a child, it can also be relieved with white medicine.

The fourth master asked the doctor to stay, and then left after making sure that Li Wei was fine. The doctor was used to it, so he brought a change of clothes before he came out, and he also left a message with his family. After quitting from the house, Zhang Desheng waited outside, and when he saw him come out, he said, "Master Bai, take you to rest." ”

Doctor Bai smiled and nodded, look, even his room is always available here. Walking out of the east courtyard, he glanced back. Since the master of this courtyard gave birth to his first child a few years ago, he has been waiting for her. After all these years, this master is as stable as Mount Tai.

After the doctor left, Ergege came in, and her eyes were red. After keeping her head, she can already be regarded as a big girl in the Qing Dynasty, and even Li Wei can't help but treat her as half an adult.

She also somewhat understood that E-Niang had suffered today, and when she saw Amma next to her, she didn't stay long before she came out. After returning to the West Chamber, she called Xiao Xizi and asked him to go to the study in the front yard to talk to Hongs.

"Just say that everything is fine here, let him rest assured." Two grids.

When they came back, they all saw that Eniang's car was not parked at the door, and she lived with Eniang and could still see Eniang, Hong S in the front yard, but she was afraid that it would turn around early.

Xiao Xizi waited for Momofuku, and the study in the front yard was also very faced. It didn't take much to get him into the front yard and find Hiros.

Hongs was also in a hurry, and when he saw him coming, he hurriedly called him in.

As soon as Xiao Xizi came in, he knelt down and said, "Gege, please rest assured, Brother Gege, everything is fine over there." ”

Hongs breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said, "Okay, I know." Go back. There are a lot of people here at night, and it's not good for you to stay here for a long time. ”

Xiao Xizi kowtowed before withdrawing.

In the east courtyard, Li Wei was really tired. After drinking a bowl of porridge, I fell asleep before seven o'clock. The fourth master slept beside her at night, and when he got up in the morning, he quietly looked at her knees, and saw that there was a bruise on it, which was extremely terrifying. But he was relieved, and the bruises came out. Start massaging her in the evening and wait for the blood to melt away.

There was no medicine, and the bruises on Li Wei's knees took seven or eight days to fade away. The fourth master came over every day, and he had to look at her knees every time. She was so ugly that she didn't want him to see it.

The fourth master said indifferently: "The master has been on the battlefield, and he has seen how ugly the wounds are, what are you doing when you are here?" As he spoke, he gently touched her knee and asked, "Does it hurt?" ”

"It's just a little bit of pain." She tried to cover her knees with her hands, but he pulled them away.

"Does the bone headache hurt?" He pressed her kneecap, noticing her look.

"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt! It's a pain in the flesh! Don't press it! Li Wei gasped and shrank back.

The fourth master let go of his hand, held his knees and looked left and right, and it took a long time to pull down the corners of his pants, "Take care of it for a few days, don't be in a hurry to get up." She knelt for a long time, and like that, he began to seriously consider reporting her illness for the New Year.

That's non-stop, you have to kneel for half a day every day, and kneeling is longer than the gold festival.

At the beginning of November, the fourth master went to Yonghe Palace to ask for peace. Concubine De said to him: "In the past few years, you haven't added anyone there. Now it's just right, I left you two last year. Before the Chinese New Year, ask someone to carry it into the house. ”

A few years ago, he didn't mix well, he just wanted to be a man with his tail shrunk, how could he take the initiative to ask for a show girl?

The fourth master smiled: "Thank you Eniang for thinking about her son." There are many children in the son's house now, and the Li family is pregnant with one. ”

Concubine De sighed and said, "Is that the one you just raised to Fujin?" This child is a good one, and she gave birth to two children in your house, right? Tell her to take care of her, and when this lands in the future, E-Niang will reward her for you. ”

The fourth master stood up, bowed down and said, "My son thanked Eniang first." In the future, he will definitely ask the Li family to come in and kowtow to Eniang. ”

It was decided that the two Gege would enter the mansion, and after the fourth master went out, Concubine De asked people to go to the Wang family and the Geng family to spread the word.

The fourth master went to the main courtyard first when he returned to the house and said two things. Fu Jin said: "This is a happy event, but I want to congratulate you." ”

"Just wait for someone to come in and set a table of wine." The fourth master said.

Fu Jin asked, "Do you want to call a play?" ”

The fourth master just wanted to say that he didn't have to, but he remembered Li Wei's room of drama books, and said, "Call two people to sing a play." When you put one in this house and one in the east courtyard. ”

Gege is going to do something, and Li Wei is hidden from Li Wei in the east courtyard, that is, Ergege and the front yard heard that Hongs has not leaked anything, as if there is no such thing in front of her.

Until the day Gege entered the door, the dining room specially sent a banquet and a small play. Li Wei calculated, didn't remember what a big day it was, and asked the jade bottle curiously: "I forgot, what is a good day today?" ”

The jade bottle laughed.

The eldest grandmother saw that she couldn't make it up, so she hurriedly gave Ergege a look, Ergege squeezed up with Hongs, and the two sisters and brothers talked nonsense together, and they forgot to ask Li Wei again.

But Li Wei didn't really forget, the table was set up, and the little drama was singing, she just couldn't forget it if she wanted to. Seeing that everyone in this room was sloppy, she guessed that it was probably ...... The fourth master is a person.

Thinking about this, I wasn't even in the mood to listen to what the little drama sang, and after singing it, I called for a reward to let people go down. There was no play, and there was a sudden silence on the table, and the same Xi Ergege and Hong S didn't dare to speak, and the room was silent.

Li Wei put down her chopsticks and said angrily: "Okay, don't hide it from me." Is it Gege? That's a good thing. The table was full of dishes that tasted like chewing wax, and she said, "You can divide the dishes into one share." I'm out of it. ”

She got up and went back to the house, even Ergege and Hongs went back. Sitting there looking at the candlelight, my chest was like a lump of cotton. The eldest grandmother took a lampshade to cover the candle and said, "Master, I always stare at the candle fire and hurt my eyes." ”

Li Wei hummed, still looking blank.

The eldest grandmother didn't persuade again. In her opinion, the fourth master spoiled her, she was lucky, and the fourth master didn't come to spoil others, and she couldn't complain. That's not right.

It was not yet seven o'clock, and the East Courtyard was already very quiet. It was like everyone was asleep. In the main courtyard, there was a faint sound of gongs and drums and a play, and people sang lyrics.

Li Wei gently joined the sound of drama in the distance, and sang: "The beautiful scenery of a good day is a day, whose courtyard is ...... to enjoy it"

The eldest grandmother opened her mouth, wanting to stop her from singing such resentful words.

Outside, the jade bottle suddenly lifted the curtain and came in, and said, "The master is here!" ”

The eldest grandmother was stunned, and saw Master Li's eyes suddenly brighten, and she pulled on her shoes and rushed out without waiting for her to stop, but she didn't react.

As soon as the fourth master opened the curtain and came in, he saw Li Wei rushing out of the back room, and said angrily: "It's all so big-bellied, and it's so ignorant!" Then he scolded the waiter, "Who is waiting in the house?" ”

The big mama followed and came out and knelt down.

The fourth master saw that it was her, although he didn't continue to scold, but he didn't give a good face, no matter if she was still kneeling, he stretched out his hand to help Li Wei, and the two entered the back room. When the jade bottles followed up and waited, the eldest grandmother dared to stand up. She clutched her chest, her heart almost jumping out of her throat. It's been several years, and the fourth master hasn't scolded her like that.

She secretly scolded herself: she is so old that she has forgotten how to serve her master.

After taking a few deep breaths, the eldest grandmother dared to enter the inner room, and as soon as she entered, she walked to Li Wei's side and waited.

Li Wei couldn't see anyone at this time, and when the fourth master changed his clothes and came out to sit on the couch after the screen, she moved over to lean on him, and after a while, she pouted and her eyes were red.

The eldest grandmother hurriedly coaxed softly: "Master, you can't shed tears, hurt your eyes and hurt your heart." While bringing a bowl of hot milk, he carefully sent it to Li Wei's mouth and fed her twice, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she relieved her sadness.

The fourth master glanced at the eldest grandmother with satisfaction, waved everyone down, hugged her and coaxed: "What are you sad about?" Didn't you come over? As he spoke, he lifted her chin, smiled at her eyes, and said, "Ye knows that you are a little vinegar bucket, don't worry, Ye will not leave with you." ”

Li Wei impulsively tugged at his sleeve: "Don't leave all the time?" ”

The fourth master rubbed her shoulder and said softly: "Don't go, don't go." After saying that, she kissed her forehead.

The two Gege lived in a courtyard, and the two lived opposite. Geng's had already rested, but Wang was soaking his feet, hissing while soaking. The water was so hot that her feet couldn't stand it. But she still has to add hot water to the girl next to her.

The girl came to wait for her, afraid of burning her, so she said that there was no hot water, and said: "At this time, the dining room is out of the stove, Gege wants to soak his feet, Ming'er." ”

Wang Shi had no choice but to soak until the water was not hot before wiping his feet. The girl poured the water, came back and asked her curiously, "Gege likes to soak his feet, right?" We have a tea stove in the house, and I'll leave a pot of hot water for Gege tomorrow. ”

Wang smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "That's not it." I used to learn the rules from my grandmother, and I knelt for a long time, and my legs were a little cold. ”

The girl was from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and she understood what was going on as soon as she heard it, but she just smiled and didn't answer, put down the bed tent, and said, "Gege, let's rest, right?" Outside the slave and maid, if you ask for water and tea at night, you can hear it when you shout. ”

Wang nodded, and the girl blew out the lamp and went out.

At night, Wang's bed tossed and turned, her legs from her knees, as if they were pierced by countless small needles, and the cold air leaked out of her bones, disturbing her whole person