Chapter 354
After the ninth elder brother and they left, at first, Yinzhen and the eighth elder brother had to adapt for several days.
They had agreed in advance that they would try not to meet in private for a month, so as not to let the two copies notice. If there is important news, send a confidant to deliver a letter.
On the surface, the fourth elder brother and the eighth elder brother once again returned to a cold hostile state.
Yin Zhen thought to himself that the family servants of each family, the officials of the DPRK and China, including Kangxi, must have died of depression. They can sense the change, but they don't know why, so they can't even ask.
Only once, when Brother Jiu entered the palace to see Kangxi, it happened that Julia was on duty, and Brother Jiu looked at her with a kind of "why have I never seen you", which made Julia panic and almost smashed the tea bowl.
Julia was frightened and hurriedly found an excuse to avoid it. Back in the back, she felt sad for a long time, not for the copy's scornful gaze, but for her to realize that they were different.
That group of people is different.
She didn't tell Yinzhen about this episode, Julia was afraid that he would get angry, so she tried to avoid two more copies in the future.
Fortunately, it was only a month, and she thought that if she got through this difficult time, everyone would be liberated.
On the Eighth Elder Brother's side, the burden is a little heavier, he has to settle the two copies, and at the same time, he has to make the fourteenth elder brother who loves to join in the fun not be suspicious, so that the officials related to the Eighth Master Party will not be aware of the loopholes.
Among them, the most difficult is a series of questions to dispel the curiosity of the fourteenth elder brother, for example, why did the foreigner in the ninth elder brother's mansion not live with the ninth elder brother, but suddenly moved to the fourth elder brother?
"Lao Jiu broke with the foreigner." The eighth elder brother said solemnly, "What about you, learn to be obedient, don't talk to Lao Jiu about this, otherwise he will still turn his face with you." ”
"It's weird." The fourteenth elder brother was full of question marks, "The two of them were so good as glue before, why can't they mention it now?" ”
"Don't mention it anyway!" Eighth Elder Brother smiled, "Aren't you Xing, people have changed a little?" Lao Jiu doesn't stick to him in the study and is willing to go out, isn't it a good thing? ”
The fourteenth elder brother nodded: "It is indeed a good thing." I see that the tenth brother has also changed, and he has locked the hut where he paints, and I don't think he has been painting much lately? ”
Eighth Elder Brother was sweating, he thought to himself, the person who locked the studio was the real Ten Elder Brother, he was just afraid that the copy would run in and make trouble.
So the eighth elder brother said, "Not really. Now it's time for him to get down to business. ”
As soon as the eighth elder brother said this, the fourteenth elder brother said mysteriously: "Eighth brother, have you figured it out?" ”
"Figure out what?"
"Continue to work against the fourth! I don't think you have been taking care of the fourth child much lately. Right? ”
Eighth Elder Brother sighed silently in his heart.
Then he said: "Brother, I didn't plan to fight against the fourth, I have told you many times, I have long lost that hope." In the future, the emperor will be the emperor for a thousand years, and I will call him the son of heaven! Anyway, no matter who is the Son of Heaven, he can't give me a bite to eat or drink less, right? ”
The fourteenth elder brother looked at him very dissatisfied, but didn't say anything after all.
It's just that before leaving on that day, the fourteenth elder brother inadvertently mentioned a joke, and he smiled and said to the eighth elder brother: "By the way, eighth brother, did you say that the ninth brother really changed his character?" A few days ago, he suddenly asked me what was going on with the promise made by Huang Amma. ”
The eighth elder brother was stunned, he felt his heart flutter for no reason!
"Which one promises?" He still smiled and asked, "Huang Ama has promised a lot." ”
"Hey, which one else can it be, it's the one you want to 'sit quietly' with her." The fourteenth elder brother said, smacking his lips, "Brother Jiu asked me, that girl looks quite old, why is she still serving in front of the palace?" Why didn't Huang Ama let her out? I joked at the time, Brother Jiu, what? You're crush on her too? As a result, he said, he really had a little bit of meaning. ”
Eighth Elder Brother's ears, buzzing!
After all, the fourteenth elder brother was young, so he didn't notice his expression change slightly, so he just continued: "Starling, you said he wasn't joking!" That woman is not involved with you and the fourth child, and Brother Jiu doesn't know it, why is he still making such a joke? ”
Eighth Elder Brother tried to squeeze out a smile: "Then what did you say at the time?" ”
"I said, what is so good about this woman? One by one, you fight for her, don't think about it, lest you get angry. Then Brother Jiu said, what? Starling wants her? I said, "I don't know what to do!" My ninth brother said at the time, since the starling wants it, then I have to get it for the starling! ”
Eighth Brother only felt that the piece on his chest was cold, as if cold sweat had penetrated the clothes inside!
But he still struggled and smiled: "If you tell Lao Jiu not to meddle in this matter, he will mess around." As for me, I didn't mean that I did it back then. Like the old fourteen you said, that woman looks like that, what's there to fight about? ”
The fourteenth elder brother seemed to be a little confused by the sudden change in his attitude, he touched his chin and said slowly: "Starling brother, you really don't want it?" If you don't want it, my ninth brother will reach out and ask for it. ”
The eighth elder brother was even more panicked, and he hurriedly waved his hand: "He's confused!" That's the person next to Huang Ama, why should Lao Jiu come forward to find it! ”
"Starling, you're too careful. is not a concubine, a promise that she was too old to be released from the palace, I think, Huang Ama didn't take her very seriously, otherwise she wouldn't have been let do rough work. It seems that Huang Ama doesn't want to give her to the fourth child anyway, so who can't he give it to! With the fact that she is made of gold, since other elder brothers want it, Huang Ama may be like a reward for others. ”
After the fourteenth elder brother said goodbye, the eighth elder brother sat alone in the study in a daze, and he realized that the emergency plans he had made before were too imperfect!
Lao Jiu's copy turned out to be interested in Julia!
How could he not have expected this! What can I do now? No wonder Lao Jiu was so worried when he left, he always felt that the copy was useless and would cause trouble for him - Lao Jiu, Lao Jiu, if the copy also changed his sexual orientation with you, how good it would be!
The eighth elder brother pondered here in a panic, and thought, should I tell Yinzhen about this? But he was worried that in fact, the copy was just talking, and there would be no real action, so he told Yinzhen, who must have panicked and couldn't help but do something about it.
Wrongly, his actions angered Lao Jiu's copy, which in turn led to him having to fight for Julia. That's a bad thing!
Let's take a look first, Eighth Elder Brother thought secretly, anyway, it's only a month, if there is really an emergency, it will be too late to put out the fire by himself.
That day Julia was sitting in the house embroidering handkerchiefs, and a maid came in with a curtain in her hand, and when she saw her in the house, the maid breathed a sigh of relief, walked quickly, and handed the basket to Julia.
"Good sister, help me send this box of patterns to Xiuhe over there." The palace maid hurriedly said, "Li Chenda called me just now, and I don't know what it is, my sister is just idle, help me run this leg." Didn't you say you wanted to eat fish? In the evening, I asked the dining room to get us a bowl of fish soup! ”
The palace maid was originally familiar with Julia, and she was one of the heat stroke patients who were rescued by her in Rehe last year.
So Julia had to take the box of embroidery patterns and come out of the house.
Concubine Yi, it's not that she hasn't been there, but in the past two days, because of the last copy of the Ninth Elder Brother, Julia has always been a little worried about that side.
However, there is no way, since she promised others, she is not embarrassed to shirk such a trivial matter.
I want to eat fish, Julia thought to herself, but I want to eat salmon sashimi, where are you going to get me?
When she arrived in Concubine Yi's palace, Julia deliberately avoided the main hall and went to the side courtyard where the palace maids gathered, she handed over the tricks to Xiuhe, and the two chatted for a while, Julia got up to say goodbye, and Xiuhe was very enthusiastic to send her.
The two of them had just walked out of the side courtyard, but they heard the footsteps in front of them, and when they looked up, a large group of people were coming this way, and it was Concubine Yi who was walking in front.
Julia chuckled in her heart, she saw the ninth elder brother beside Concubine Yi. However, at this moment, it is no longer possible to hide.
As soon as she saw the mother and son, Xiuhe hurriedly asked for peace, and Julia was also busy asking for peace.
Concubine Yi has seen Julia a few times, and unlike Concubine De, she likes this girl a lot, and because she has a vague clue in her heart, she treats Julia more and more politely.
When I saw her coming over today, I asked with a smile: "What is the matter with the girl coming over here?" ”
Julia said respectfully, "The slave is here to send flowers to Xiuhe." ”
She didn't dare to raise her head, for fear of touching the gaze of the dungeon, but even so, Julia could still intuitively sense that the copy of the Ninth Brother was staring at her closely!
I only heard Concubine Yi smile gently: "When will the girl be free, embroider two more handkerchiefs for me, the pattern that Lao Jiu asked you to embroider last time, no one has ever seen it, and the people in this palace praise the girl's ingenuity!" ”
When the ninth elder brother next to him heard this, he was surprised: "E-Niang, what did you say?" I asked her to embroider a handkerchief for you? ”
A thin cold sweat broke out on Julia's forehead!
Please ask her to embroider a handkerchief for Concubine Yi, it is the real Brother Jiu, on Mother's Day, Brother Jiu is ingenious, he wants to find a bunch of carnations for Concubine Yi, but how can there be such flowers in the capital? When Julia found out, she volunteered to say that there was no real flower, so she would make one. So she embroidered a handkerchief for Concubine Yi, and Brother Jiu learned that she was very grateful. Later, he also asked Jiufujin to see the handkerchief and learn the pattern back to embroider it himself, because Brother Jiu has always liked carnations.
But all this, how could the copy possibly know!
Therefore, Concubine Yi was also surprised: "Look at your memory, it's only been a few months, and you have forgotten it completely...... If it weren't for your entrustment, people would have sent a handkerchief? ”
Concubine Yi said the back, and the tone was already very meaningful.
Just because of the handkerchief embroidered with carnations, and said it was a gift for her mother, Concubine Yi had a misunderstanding, and she thought that Brother Jiu liked Julia.
At this moment, Julia regretted that she, a modern person who had been in the ivory tower for a long time, was familiar with ancient interpersonal relationships? Besides, there is a big gap between ancient and modern cultural backgrounds, and carnations, which are bright and bright motherly flowers, she and Brother Jiu feel that it is nothing, but Concubine Yi can't understand it, and even misunderstands.
If the Ninth Elder Brother is really present, it doesn't matter, but there is a copy in front of him......
Brother Jiu saw that her face was wrong, and snorted: "Eniang, my brain is too busy, there are too many things, and it is common to forget." ”
Julia saw the stitches, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Niangniang, Ninth Master, it's not early, Long Live Lord still has errands to do......"
Concubine Yi nodded: "You go." ”
If she was amnesty, Julia fled from Concubine Yi's palace in a panic with a pounding heart.
The scene just now was so frightened that Julia couldn't take two steps, and Julia was out of breath. She simply found a stone and sat down, her hands on her chest.
Scared to death, she thought, fortunately she escaped quickly, and if she continued, she didn't know what the copy would say.
Just thinking about it, she suddenly felt a hand behind her back on her shoulder: "What are you doing running so fast?" ”
Julia jumped in fright!
She turned her head and saw that it was Brother Jiu!
…… That copy!
In an instant, Julia's face turned sallow, she grabbed the handkerchief in her hand, her body stepped back, and her mouth trembled: "Ninth master, slave maid...... The slave maid is in a hurry to return to the Qianqing Palace......"
"So, what are you doing in a hurry to go back to the Qianqing Palace?" Brother Ninth looked at her with a smile, "I was talking to Xiuhe well, but when I saw me coming, I was going to leave immediately." ”
As he spoke, he leaned forward suddenly: "I'm a tiger?" ”
He's so close that his nose is next to Julia's face!
Cold sweat broke out of Julia's nose, and she looked nervously around, hoping to find one or two guards, but now it was a little dark, and there was not a single guard around!
She had to turn her face and take two steps back: "Ninth Master, what are you doing here?" ”
Caught off guard, Brother Jiu grabbed her arm: "Why are you avoiding me?" Since you are afraid of me, why did you embroider a veil and give it to my mother? ”
Julia can't answer!
Brother Jiu looked at her, and his face smiled evilly: "I've heard about you, the fourth brother and my starling brother." Isn't it a little girl, can you be so ashamed? I know, you don't want to let me go of this road, otherwise you won't send things to my mother, right? Don't worry, Starling doesn't want you anymore, I want it very much. ”
Julia couldn't hold back any longer, she slammed away Brother Jiu's hand and said in a trembling voice: "Ninth Master! Please respect yourself! ”
Brother Jiu laughed: "Where did the words come from?" Who are you? Dare to ask me to have a brother who is self-respecting? Aren't you just relying on the fourth child to support you on the table? I'm not afraid of him! ”
As he spoke, he grabbed Julia's shoulders and pushed her into the corner!
Julia screamed in pain for a while, her arm couldn't break free, she kicked desperately, and as soon as she resisted, Brother Jiu was suddenly annoyed, and his face turned ruthless: "Don't be ashamed of your face!" All right! I'm going to teach you a lesson today, little hoof who doesn't know where to go! ”
At this moment, when he heard the footsteps of running, someone dragged Brother Jiu away from behind, and before he could come back to his senses, the man punched him in the face!
Julia looked at it, and it was Yinzhen!
Brother Jiu was beaten by that punch, and when he saw that it was Yinzhen, he was even more angry: "Okay! Fourth, you dare to hit me! ”
In the next second, he pounced and scuffled with Yinzhen!
Julia was on the side, angry, scared and crying, she reached out to separate them, but the two of them were inseparable, and for a while there was dust around them!
At this moment, a team of guards passed by, and saw the noisy and noisy corner of the palace wall, and stepped forward to stop it, and it was easy to separate, and the guards found out that it was the fourth elder brother and the ninth elder brother!
didn't dare to hide the situation, and the guards who took the lead quickly reported to Kangxi.
When Kangxi heard that the fourth elder brother and the ninth elder brother were fighting outside the Qianqing Palace, he was so angry that his beard was cocked!
"Get them all!"
The guard said, "Also present is the palace maid Wei. ”
When Kangxi heard this, he was even more angry: "Sure enough, I know that this girl is indispensable!" Bring her with you! ”
So after a while, the three of them came to Kangxi with a disgraced face.
Kangxi looked underneath, the ninth elder brother's nose was broken and bleeding, the fourth elder brother's hair was a little messy, the button was also torn open, and his body was covered with dust.
"Say, what's going on!"
Brother Jiu snorted and turned his face away.
Yinzhen was silent for a long time before he said: "Back to the emperor Ama, son...... I saw Brother Nine molesting Webster. ”
When Brother Jiu heard this, he immediately shouted in a straight voice: "Fourth! Which eye did you see me molesting her?! She came out of my mother, and my mother forgot to ask her something, so I asked me to hurry up and ask! ”
Yin Zhen said coldly: "But I haven't seen someone grab someone's shoulder with both hands, stick to someone's face, and force someone to ask." ”
"It's the little hoof's hand that makes the first move! How the do you dare to lie to me?! ”
"Enough!" Kangxi shouted angrily, and the two of them stopped ringing.
The Emperor calmed down and asked Julia, "Webster, what's going on!" ”
Julia was aggrieved, she wanted to tell the truth, but she was worried that she would offend Concubine Yi and discredit the reputation of the real Ninth Elder Brother.
weighed it repeatedly in her heart, and in the end, she had to choke up and say: "Back to Long Live Lord, it was the slave maid who was not careful in her words and offended Brother Jiu......"
Brother Jiu was on the side and sneered: "Fourth, did you hear that?" People themselves say it's okay, what kind of hero are you running out to be? ”
Yin Zhen remained silent: "You mean, for no reason, I suddenly rushed up and beat you?" I don't think Huang Ama will believe it. ”
Kangxi frowned: "You two, shut up!" ”
He paused: "Webster, you go down first!" ”
Julia retreated with tears in her eyes.
Looking at the two sons, Kangxi said angrily: "I don't want to ask more about today's matter." Lao Jiu, you have been staying at home honestly for the past few days! Don't come out! Let's go down first! ”
Brother Nine stood up angrily and retreated.
In the house, only Kangxi and Yinzhen were left.
Kangxi looked at Yinzhen, who was still kneeling on the ground.
"Tell me, what the hell is going on?" He said lightly, "I drove Lao Jiu away, and now you are alone here, Lao Si, you can tell the truth." ”
Yin Zhen lowered his head: "What Erchen said just now is the truth, Brother Jiu teased Julia......"
"I'm not going to listen to that." Kangxi paused, "I want to ask, what's wrong with Lao Jiu." ”
Yinzhen's heart suddenly stopped!
"Not like him." Kangxi suddenly said, "Just now, it's not like the ninth - fourth, what's going on?" (To be continued.) )