The end of Kangxi's fiftieth year has finally arrived!

It's been a long year, and it may seem as uneventful to others as any other, but for some, it's the most memorable year of life.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the family banquet in the palace was eaten by Kangxi and several high-ranking concubines, during which Julia was also serving tea and water, and she was busy.

She didn't find it annoying, but she found it interesting, what a rare opportunity like this! A modern person, participating in the palace banquet three hundred years ago, well, it would be better if she also had a chopstick for each dish.

Despite her cautious bowing, Julia could still feel several eyes focused on her. Because he has not been on duty for a long time, and he only serves by Kangxi's side, there are not many opportunities to see the concubines, but Julia also guessed that her "reputation" has spread among this group of girls.

During the banquet, she also met Concubine De, and Julia specially asked her good friends to give her guidance on who was who. Concubine De is a middle-aged and wealthy woman, dignified and generous, and there is indeed the shadow of Yinzhen between her eyebrows and eyes. Julia couldn't figure out why she ended up having such a stiff fight with Yinzhen.

In addition, Julia thought of the concubine who had just passed away, and she sighed secretly.

After the feast, he helped clean up until late at night. Li Dequan went to persuade Kangxi, who was still studying at the desk, that it was not too early, so it was better to rest.

Kangxi put down the scroll in his hand, he thought for a while: "Call Wei." ”

Li Dequan didn't know what Kangxi was going to do, so he had to go out and call Julia, who was still wiping the tea cup, into the room.

"Hooray." Julia half-squatted.

Kangxi looked at her: "Tomorrow is the New Year." ”

"Yes."

"Someone told me. I'll give you something. In Kangxi's expression, there seemed to be the boss's reluctance. There is also the boss's awkwardness.

Julia was stunned.

As he spoke, Kangxi pushed a bunch of things on the table towards Julia.

It is a brocade box. And an epistle.

Julia hesitated for a moment, then finally stepped forward, reached out and took the crimson brocade box embroidered with gold thread, and opened it vigorously.

Inside, there is a rose.

The roses carved from jadeite have crystal clear petals, full of greenery, and flowing brilliance. At the end is a thin gold chain.

Julia was taken aback!

"This ......"

"Prince Yong gave it to you." Kangxi snorted, "He said he didn't dare to pass it on privately." So just let me leave it to you. ”

Julia couldn't laugh or cry.

After the incident of the eighth elder brother, passing things has become a very sensitive matter, and Yinzhen thought of it, so he simply handed over the things to Kangxi and asked the emperor to pass on his personal belongings.

Thinking of yesterday's incident, Kangxi was still a little angry in his heart, and when he heard Yinzhen's request, he thought that something was wrong with his ears!

"You mean, tell me to give the gift to Merriam-Webster?!"

Yin Zhen was neither humble nor arrogant: "Yes." Erchen didn't dare to pass things on in private. So he had to ask the emperor to give the things to Julia. ”

Kangxi was simply angry with him, and said that this son is stupid, among the more than ten adult princes, who else has ever been shrewd in Prince Yong's iron abacus?

Say this son is smart. How could there be a father like him, who forced the emperor's father to deliver a gift to a palace maid?

"Fourth, what do you think?" Kangxi asked confusedly.

"Huang Ama. Erchen wants to send something to her, she is Hongli's biological mother. But he couldn't see Hongli, and it was rare to see his sons once. It must be difficult for her to spend her days alone in the palace in solitude......"

"So you're forcing me to send her something?!"

"It's not to force Huang Amma, it's to plead." Yinzhen still said word by word, "Erchen misses her very much, but Erchen knows the rules, and Erchen will not exceed the rules, so I implore Huang Ama to fulfill it." ”

has said that this step, it is the request of an adult prince again, Kangxi understands that it would be too unkind to brush his sleeves and ignore it.

"What is it?" He asked reluctantly.

"It's an emerald pendant." Yin Zhen said, opening the brocade box, "There is also a letter." ”

"Letters?"

"Yes." Yin Zhen continued, "Letter, Huang Ama, you look at it first, if you feel that there are any words and sentences that are inappropriate, Huang Ama can not give it to her." ”

Kangxi felt that he was being forced into a corner step by step by the fourth child. He stared at Yinzhen: "Do you really think it's necessary?" Who in the palace doesn't live like her? You're going to get into these troubles! ”

"She's different from the rest." Yin Zhen still insisted, "Erchen doesn't plan to do anything excessive, I just want her to know that Erchen is thinking about her, and that's enough." ”

He paused before he said, "Huang Ama, the days when people don't worry about it are too difficult. ”

This last sentence finally touched Kangxi's heart.

The fourth child seemed to have admitted it, and he secretly thought that if it was another prince, he would be angry and then flatly refuse, but the fourth child was different, he was a minister with weight.

Although it is a father and son of the monarch and minister, it can't be too stiff - I just had the eighth attack, and now I have the fourth attack for this matter, I'm afraid ...... Inappropriate.

Thinking of this, Kangxi finally reluctantly said: "Don't take it as an example." ”

So, that's why the gifts and letters came to Julia.

The thing was in front of her, Julia still couldn't believe it, she hesitated for a long time: "Your Majesty, the letter...... Have you seen it? ”

"I've seen it." Kangxi didn't have a good air, "Long-winded! It's all short of parents! ”

What about the short-term parents? The letter is not in the right format! It was written upside down from left to right, and it was written horizontally, not vertically. After reading it carefully, Kangxi was even more angry, it turned out that all the words written by Yinzhen were vulgar characters, and there were many other words that only half of the side were left, such as the currency character was written as a coin, and the open character was written as open.

"What a system!" Kangxi slammed the letter on the table, "What a mess this is!" Fourth, why are there all the typos in your letters? ”

"Back to Emperor Amma, Julia is not very literate, she only knows such words. If it was written in a regular way, she didn't know it. ”

What a reason for this!

Kangxi barely held back his anger. I picked up the letter again and read it hastily.

It's all vernacular. What is snowing, how thick is the snow, how is the situation in Hongli, how many people are taking care of him in the house, how are you feeling recently, how do the nine elder brothers and ten elder brothers go out to hunt...... Not to mention quoting scriptures, reading that sentence by sentence, it is like a farmer at the head of the village talking to his stupid daughter-in-law who can't read a lot of big words, and the words and sentences are not brilliant. I don't know what to do.

How could this kind of letter be written by the prince whom he had taught for many years?!

Yin Zhen saw Kangxi's surprise, and he had to say: "Erchen can only write the letter like this, otherwise, there are too many complicated clichés attached, and Julia can't understand it." ”

Kangxi didn't finish reading it, so he threw the letter down, and he sighed.

"Just such a woman who doesn't understand anything and is like a fool, fourth. What do you think of her? ”

And it's like that!

Yin Zhen laughed when he asked this.

"Julia isn't confused, she just doesn't know too many things."

Kangxi was not in the mood to read the letter carefully, and hastily browsed it to the end. He snorted: "New Year's ...... Happy? Fourth, how else do you want her to be happy? Do you have fun turning your head in the palace! ”

It took a lot of effort for Yinzhen to hold back his wild laughter.

"What nonsense!" Kangxi snorted angrily. "I see that the more you live, the more regressive you are!"

Although it was so rebuked, but the letters and gifts. It was still handed over to Julia.

"Don't take it as an example." Kangxi snorted, "Take it back to the house." Go with the joy of turning your head! ”

With the letters and gifts in hand, Julia returned to her lonely cottage, where she lit the lamp, unfolded the letters under the lamp, and looked like —

Julia:

You okay?

When I pick up the pen, I don't know what to write, I want to say a lot, especially after almost a year, I often feel that I am about to be crushed by these accumulated words, they are not intangible, but like tangible mountains. But when I looked back at it, I saw nothing but emptiness. Can you feel this feeling?

It was getting colder, and it was snowing so thick that it was as if the whole world was frozen. I felt much more lonely than I did in summer and autumn, perhaps because everyone was too lazy to go out, and even the women in the house talked less, and their expressions seemed to freeze, and I suspected that they would run into the snow at any moment and sing let.it.go

But occasionally, they will still go out hunting with Lao Jiu, last time Lao Jiu caught a fox, captured alive, the fox's hind paws were caught by the beast. We all thought he was going to make a fox fur scarf or something, but guess what happened to the fox in the end?

It was released by Lao Jiu, saying, looking at those eyes, I feel unbearable, and I will feel suffocated around my neck.

We were all surprised, but at the same time we weren't surprised. Lao Shi said, how can you hunt if you are so soft-hearted? Lao Jiu said that the soles of his feet were caught by the beast clip, and the feeling of being trapped in the icy and snowy forest and unable to move was too miserable.

Aren't we like this fox right now?

When Lao Jiu faces elegant and moving animals, his heart will become very soft. Do you remember when I said he was from the Appearance Club? I just didn't expect that his appearance club could be generalized to animals, and if it was an ugly and rude boar stuck there, I think it could only end up at the table of the old nine families.

Because when I think of the dining table, I think of the Hiroshi.

He was so good at eating, and he ate so much that I even started to think about getting a cow in the palace. But strangely, he is not fatter than babies of the same age, and I don't know where all the nutrients have accumulated.

And he is not keen on sleeping, when he is awake, he must be carried by adults everywhere, look everywhere, I have to hold him, turn around in each room, he is very powerful, he actually remembers the room he has been to, if a certain place he has been to today, and I have forgotten, and I carry him in, he will get angry, scream and cry, as if to criticize my carelessness - did he get the wrong landing place?

The man who came up from the stars.

No, baby boys.

Hongli's mother loves him very much, please rest assured, I remember your entrustment, so try to choose those slaves who really like children to take care of Hongli. His energy is indeed more than that of an average baby, and it can even be said that he is too vigorous. Fortunately, there is a large group of people dealing with him now, and I think that if it was just the two of us dealing with this child, as before, I would have to be a nanny at home.

One more thing. The gardener brought me a lot of succulents, and I plan to plant them in the yard after the spring. Just like the ones I used to grow on my balcony.

I want them to try to thrive and grow strong roots before they can walk on the ground. Otherwise, it is likely that he will uproot them one by one. Looking at the energy of his infant now, I can't help but worry about my flesh.

Energetic, but the aesthetics are poor, what's going on?

In the future, shouldn't I let Hongli read too many books? I'm afraid that in the future, he will really write thousands of miserable and endless saliva poems. Writing poetry itself is nothing, but it is pitiful to be used as a slot, pointing and poking for hundreds of years. I don't want my son to become the famous honeycomb coal in history because he wrote poetry.

Maybe you can't understand this kind of worry, and maybe you'll applaud his bad poems. He can't be Li Bai, and he hasn't inherited his outstanding literary creation ability, which is probably not a pity for you. Anyway, the two of you maintain a high degree of consistency in aesthetic taste, and this child will only be as obsessed with those silly flowers as you in the future.

I miss you, Julia, and the time we spent together, and it's because it's so special that I can't forget it for a long time. I never imagined that this would be the case now: a continuous red wall around you, cutting you off from the rest of the world. Strange, how did your life come to be like this?

Do you feel miserable?

I don't know what I can do, and I seem, I can't do anything. It makes me feel more and more frustrated, remorseful, and I can't help but wonder, when we are all free, why don't I spend more time with you, and look for more things we love? At that time, I was always planning for the future, and I felt that next month's mortgage was more important than anything else – now I never have to worry about it.

Very foolish.

…… And, there's a gift that I gave you stupidly, two years late, but I still want to give it to you.

Enclosed with the letter is a copy of the old ten-painted Hongli, which he is now looking like.

Wish, Happy New Year.

Yinzhen

Julia unfolded a piece of tissue paper inside the letter, it was indeed a sketch of a baby, I don't know where the tenth brother found the graphite, it looked like a pencil drawing.

Julia stared at the child for a long time, then she put it down and opened the box again.

Brilliant emerald roses, she had seen exactly the same.

Two years ago, when she and Yinzhen saw this jade jewelry in a gold store, Julia couldn't help but be moved, but when they looked at the price, it was almost half of the total price of their new house.

At that moment, Julia swallowed back the words that came to her mouth, if she pestered Yinzhen and said that she wanted this thing, then she would be forcing Yinzhen to rob the bank.

Hmph, wait until my family is really rich...... No, when he ascends the throne, these are nothing!

She comforted herself with the spirit of Ah Q at that time, but after all, she liked it, so she couldn't help but go to the gold store alone and stare at the jewelry for a long time.

She never told Yinzhen that she liked this jade rose, she didn't mention a word, not even hint. How did Yinzhen know what she wanted?

It turned out that he knew so much about her.

Julia picked up the rose and held it in her palm, some wanting to smile and some to cry.

In the dark night, the emerald green petals flowed with a thin light, quietly blooming between her fingers. (To be continued.) )