After Zi Ning drank the porridge and put on the quilt and lay down, Yan Chen went out of the house.

"Master, is this veil going to be thrown away?" The maid asked, pointing to the handkerchief full of medicinal stains.

Yan Chen pondered for a moment: "Wash and put it away." ”

The maid looked at the figure of the five princes leaving, and made a bitter face, this medicine stain is the most difficult to wash, and it is still silk, so it can only be rubbed and not brushed, hey, sure enough, the difference in front of the master is difficult, that Zining girl's life is really good......

Zining has been lying in bed for five or six days, and the fifth prince has never come again, and I don't know if it was because she occupied the master's bed, or if she was really busy with something, and she was comfortable these days.

Fingers every day there are maids waiting to rub the medicine, the medicine is really effective, a few days without going into the water, the chapped hands are slowly healing, the hands are not as itchy as before, Zi Ning thought of not having to touch the cold water again, more and more grateful to the five princes.

Zining can get out of bed now, stay in the house all day, bored, casually put the cups on the coffee table, and clean up the house.

"Miss Zining, don't be busy, if someone sees me, I should be punished." Xingzhi hurriedly took the teapot and pulled Zining to sit down.

It's all palace maids, Zi Ning looked at Xingzhi's busy work and was a little unhappy": I'm already fine, now I can walk and move, and if I am idle, I will really become a pair of crispy bones. ”

"Then I'll accompany the girl outside to bask in the sun, but don't embarrass me."

Zining couldn't, seeing that the weather outside was sunny after the snow today, it was okay, and he hadn't gone out for a walk for a long time.

"Oh, why did Miss Zining come out, it's cold outside, Xingzhi doesn't hurry up and add some clothes, if the fifth master knows about us, we will be scolded."

Zi Ning smiled: "Father-in-law don't have to be nervous, I'm not a glass person, and my body is already well, I haven't been so squeamish, I went back to the sewing room in two days, I am still a little girl, and now I have the care of the five princes, which is a great gift." ”

"Girl, don't say that, how can you be the same as those palace maids, just the fifth master's house, not everyone enters it." Chunzi can see clearly, the five princes are very nervous about the Zining girl, and they have never seen the five princes who have always been calm like this, and they have to ask about it every night before going to the study to lie on the side, if this Zining girl really goes back to the needlework room, this hard life will not last long, and it just so happens that there is a lack of a maid in the fifth master's room, so maybe she will really be accepted. Chunzi smiled secretly in her heart, this Zining girl, he has to be careful.

Zining pursed her lips, she is just a palace maid of the Huanyi Bureau, this is a fact that is difficult to change, even if they treat her very well, but she still has to go back to the Huanyi Bureau after all, go back to the sewing room, and Wen'er, she is already satisfied, and the others dare not have any extravagant hopes": I just sit in the courtyard, bask in the sun, there is no wind today, and my father-in-law does not have to be nervous. ”

"Hey, Nacheng, if the wind blows, girl, you should hurry into the house. Apricot you have to serve. ”

"Yes, father-in-law, don't worry, the slave and maid will definitely serve well." Xingzhi blessed her body, nodded in response, Miss Zining spoke in a polite manner, her temperament was good, and she was good at treating her, if she could serve all the time, it would be better than going back to sweep the palace.

This yard didn't dare to look up seriously last time, this will go anywhere, and find that in addition to a cluster of green bamboos in the garden, there is actually a place where plum trees are planted, and there are eight or nine trees planted in the seven and eight, the dark fragrance floats, there are palace powder plums that are difficult for ordinary people to see, and there are two or three fragrant plums, which are in full bloom in one place.

Zining likes plum blossoms, the plum blossom cake made by the mother-in-law in the small kitchen in the courtyard is the sweetest, every morning in winter, the blue has to go to the garden to fold one or two branches and insert them in the plum vase, and the house has the fragrance of plum blossoms all day long. Thinking of the blue and them, Zining wet her eyes, people pity the flowers like the old, the flowers don't know how thin they are, now she is alone, and said that she and the second sister are enjoying the plum blossoms together this year, but now they are things and people.

"Girl, the wind is blowing, shall we go in?"

Xingzhi looked at Zi Ning standing under the plum tree in a daze, staring at the branches in a daze, with a white body on his head and shoulders, tears in his eyes, and he couldn't help but persuade him.

Zi Ning nodded, brushed the cuffs on the flaps, the days are still passable, the road has to go by herself, in the dark, she doesn't believe that she will be trapped here for the rest of her life.

After another two or three days, Aunt Tao of the pulp washing room came to Longdezhai to lead people, saying that the end of the year is approaching, the internal affairs government will come to check the number of people, the palace maids are not allowed to move around at will before the Lantern Festival, no matter which palace people must spend the New Year in that palace, there are unwritten rules in the palace, the New Year is a day of reunion, the palace is hidden in the year beast, if you walk around everywhere, disturb something, the next year the courtyard will be sad, this rule from the ancestor emperor has been set, no one dares to disobey.

Eunuch Long Dezhai nodded in response, saying that he would wait for the five princes to come back and make a decision, and personally send people through the courtyard at that time.

At night, Yan Chen had just returned from the camp, and as soon as he stepped into the courtyard gate, Xiao Chunzi returned to Aunt Tao to receive people.

"Is she resting?" Recently, the camp has been busy, the frontier Tartars have provoked, and the war has broken out, and now both sides are waiting and seeing, and whether to send troops or not depends on a decision of the Holy One. Yan Chen hadn't been back to the house for four or five days, and when he came back, he only squinted in the study for a while, thinking that Ning had woken up and fed the medicine once that day, and he never stepped into the house again.

"I just drank the medicine and lay down, and I don't know if I'm asleep, why don't you knock on the door? It's not still on. Haruko pointed to the warm-lit window and replied.

"No, how's she doing?"

"It's almost, the imperial doctor said that he would be cured by taking two more pills, and today Miss Zining also came out to walk around the yard." Xiao Chunzi replied honestly, and was afraid that the five princes would be angry and blame, and then added: "It is estimated that I have been in the house for a long time and panicked, but I didn't come out for long, and I stood under the plum tree for a while and went back." ”

Does she like plum blossoms? Yan Chen remembered the plum forest in the palace located behind the Changchun Palace, at this time, the white plums and ice plums were blooming, and the ground was full of flowers, if she saw it, what would she do?

"Send her back to the Huanyi Bureau tomorrow, explain the people below, be careful with the master, if such a thing happens again, no matter who it is, the master will not be spared."

"Yes, the slave obeys the order, the fifth master should rest early."

Yan Chen nodded and entered the study.

Early in the morning of the second day, Koharuko was waiting outside the room.

"Is the master here?" Before leaving, Zining always wanted to thank the five princes in person, but after staying here for a few days, he occupied the master's house, and left so quietly, it was too much to say.

"The fifth master went out of the palace early in the morning, if the girl really has something, I can help convey it."

"It doesn't matter, but I want to thank you in person, since the master is not here, then forget it."

"Well, come with me, girl."