The death of Prince Yu and Prince Gong has not stopped the pace of time, everything is going according to the original trajectory, except for the dearest and beloved ones, will anyone remember them? Will anyone ever feel sad and sad for them once in a while? Probably not, look at the red palace lights, listen to the laughter, no one's life has been affected by their departure, despite the turmoil.

Today's bamboo basket is no longer a little palace maid in the Chuxiu Palace, I don't know what Kangxi thinks, on the day he returned to the palace from Prince Yu's mansion, he was waiting for Li Dequan at the palace gate, and as soon as the bamboo basket entered the palace gate, the will to dispatch came down. Zhu Zhen didn't even return to Chuxiu Palace, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Babeile and went to Qianqing Palace with Li Dequan to resume his life.

There has never been a palace maid or eunuch who has been able to return again after leaving the Qianqing Palace, and for a while, the bamboo basket was pushed to the forefront. The palace maid in front of the palace, what a majestic position, if the word "close" is added, I am afraid that it will make many people envious.

There are only bamboo baskets, which are more and more like walking on thin ice.

After experiencing the life in the palace in the past few years, Zhu Zhen felt that she didn't understand this palace more and more, and the people in this palace seemed to be hypocritical, but people seemed to have to bring out a sincere heart for you to see, but if she said that the love was deep, why couldn't she tell someone what was in her heart?

In addition to acting more cautiously and behaving stricter than before, the biggest difference is that the opportunity to meet with the princes is obviously much more frequent.

When she saw the thirteenth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother, Zhu Beile always talked and laughed, and in the face of Babel, she would be a little embarrassed, on the one hand, she wanted Babel to settle down quickly, so that she didn't have to hesitate anymore, repeatedly, and didn't have to be worried every time she talked to Babel, for fear that he would jump out of something in the next sentence, but on the other hand, she was afraid that Babel would talk about it, she was afraid that she was not ready, just like that, such a one-sentence thing slowly became a thing in Zhu Beile's heart. Si Belle, I can't tell what kind of feeling it is, when I can't see it, I always look forward to it, but I really want to catch a glimpse of his figure, but she always wants to hide, but she can't hide, and she becomes quiet, and she hurriedly salutes, and passes by. Every time she met him, she would dream wildly at night, and the sound of "Brother Yu" always made her panic until she woke up in a cold sweat, and then fell groggy until dawn.

I've thought about helping Zakuta Zhuzhen countless times, but when the words come to her mouth, she always can't speak, she can't make amends with her life after all, every now and then, she will always say to herself: "Zhuji, discuss with you, if you come back, you can do whatever you want, but if you don't come back, then, as long as Babel doesn't speak first, this matter will be regarded as a permanent secret." When I calmed down, I suddenly realized that I had begun to regard Zakuta Zhuji's future as my life.

Zhu Zhen convinces himself that his heart is dead day after day, and then when he sees him again, a heart begins to stir again, and then forces himself to let go again and again, let go!

Fifteen years old, no, the virtual age is already seventeen years old, and girls of this age grow fast. The bamboo hoop turned out the palace clothes when he first entered the palace, and compared it with his body, which was already a big shortening. Twenty-four, sweeping the house, looking at the busy figures in the palace, the bamboo basket was also infected, and took out all the clothes in his cabinet, and made a bed one by one.

There are rules for palace maids to wear clothes, when they were in Chuxiu Palace, because of the care of Concubine Liang, they could always wear two unique clothes, but when they arrived in Qianqing Palace, there was no one to cover them. In the past six months, the bamboo basket has also behaved in a proper manner, but looking at the various clothes in front of her, a little girl in the bamboo basket is inevitably excited.

This tender goose yellow was rewarded by Concubine Liang when she first arrived at Chuxiu Palace, the bamboo blue was brought from home, and this apricot color was wearing this dress and met him for the first time. The blue piping flag costume was also rewarded by Concubine Liang, who had not been wearing it for a few hours at the time, but because of his two sentences, he was soiled, and for this reason, he also formed an incomprehensible relationship with Brother Jiu......

The bamboo basket gradually stopped the movements of his hands, his eyes were scattered, and his thoughts drifted away. In the past three years, think about it, a lot of things have happened, I have met a lot of people, and it is rare that I have come all the way to today. Whether it's thanks, or sadness, it's still alive and healthy, the Zakuta family hasn't suffered any blame for themselves, except for the cane punishment of the fourteenth elder brother, no one has been caught up in trouble because of themselves, thinking about it like this, it's already God blessed, what more do you want?

Fold the clothes one by one and put them in the cabinet, Zhu Zhen took out her pocket watch and looked at the time, it was still early, she was only on duty in the afternoon today, and she had time to take a nap after lunch.

Babel's pocket watch, the bamboo basket has always been worn, there is no purpose, but the watch is really a practical thing for the bamboo basket. Although Zhu Zhen is cautious every time, but after a long time, there is always a time when he is seen, the last time he was outside the Qianqing Palace, he took a look at the time to give Kangxi refreshments, but he was seen by several masters who came out of it. Babel was in the know, the smile was all in his eyes, the ninth elder brother's expression was quite meaningful, and the tenth elder brother, who had no heart and lungs, saw it and shouted directly: "Isn't this the gold pocket watch that the eighth brother took a Ru kiln pen to wash and exchanged from me last year?" I finally got it, and I plan to give it to the new concubine and make her happy, why did I come to you? As soon as the words came out, they caused different colors.

Zhu Ji didn't dare to look at Si Beile's expression, only glanced at the thirteenth elder brother, the thirteenth elder brother's face was as usual, but when everyone left, the thirteenth elder brother walked last, and when he passed by Zhu Zong, he gently bumped Zhu Zong's arm. It's better than the fourteenth elder brother, just now the fourteenth master went over, and he didn't even look at her, which is like usual, with eyebrows and smiles, and often teases two sentences with bamboo baskets.

Afterwards, Zhu Zhen thought about putting away the pocket watch, although it was more troublesome to see the time, so he recognized it, but after thinking about it, he did it himself, but there was no silver three hundred taels here, and it was better to be generous and the same as usual, and others couldn't say anything. Thinking like this, this pocket watch has been worn on the bamboo basket.

The last time I stayed in the Qianqing Palace was short, and it was an inconspicuous role, Zhu Zhen came this time, and she was also a newcomer, although her status was significantly improved, but she wanted to keep a low profile, so on this birthday, no one knew about the eunuchs and palace maids who worked in the Qianqing Palace. I thought that I was in the Qianqing Palace, and the people who gave gifts in previous years should have forgotten it, but who would have thought that the gifts were still delivered to the door.

First, the fourteenth elder brother asked someone to bring a slender and flat sandalwood box like selling treasures, and told him to be careful all the way. The bamboo basket opened the door in response, and before he could ask the fourteenth elder brother what was the matter, the fourteenth elder brother was like the owner of the house, and commanded the little eunuch behind him to sort out a flat-headed case against the south wall in the bamboo basket house, and lifted the box he brought.

"What is this?" Zhu Zhen stepped forward and asked.

The fourteenth elder brother raised his eyebrows at the bamboo basket, looking proud, and then instructed the little eunuch: "Open it, pay attention carefully." ”

The two little eunuchs on the side responded and gently opened the lid of the box—the bamboo spoon covered his mouth violently so as not to scream.

When the fourteenth elder brother saw the appearance of the bamboo basket, his smile deepened, and he waved at a few little eunuchs, and the few little eunuchs retreated.

Only the fourteenth elder brother and the bamboo basket were left in the room, and the fourteenth elder brother Xiang was still in place, looking straight at the bamboo basket on the desk, and said with a smile: "How is it, how similar is it to you?" ”

Zhu Zhen nodded subconsciously, and replied indiscriminately: "Like, like, too similar!" No, it's just a touch! As he spoke, he shifted his gaze to the Fourteenth Elder Brother and said, "How did you do that?" ”

The fourteenth elder brother laughed twice, sat down on the chair next to the desk, fiddled with the objects on the case, and said, "I can't think of anything good for you, I suddenly remembered that you were so pitiful about homesickness a few days ago, so I drew a few drawings according to your description, and invited a few masters to come to my house to work hard for days, and I don't know if I did it right." But looking at the way you are now, it shouldn't be bad, right? ”

The bamboo basket walked to the side of the table, and his fingers gently stroked the grass and trees on the case, carefully, for fear that he would break something. There are two doors in the north and south of the small courtyard of grandpa's house, the north gate is the living room, the south door is open to the backyard, there is a big jujube tree in the southeast corner of the yard, there are two small horses on the ground, I and my sister always like to play in the yard, raise rabbits, raise hedgehogs, wash water chestnuts, and hide cats. There are also several flowers in the courtyard, placed on the open balcony, all of which were raised by my grandfather. Outside the yard, there are many trees, towering pines and cypresses, dwarf shrubs, and spring and begonias.

Looking at it, Zhu Zhen was suddenly stunned, who are those two little dolls? Myself and my brother? Look at the clothes, it is the costume of the Qing Dynasty, the girl is bent over the window and looks into the house, wearing a white jade bracelet on her wrist. Look at the male baby again, standing behind the female baby with his hands behind his back, smiling a little proudly. How is this scene so familiar? Zhu Zhen tilted his head to think, but he couldn't remember it for a while, and looked at the fourteenth elder brother in confusion, but the fourteenth elder brother only smiled and played dumb riddles with her.

Zhu Zhen frowned, suddenly caught a glimpse of the jade pendant on the waist of the fourteenth elder brother, and then looked back at the male baby, but no, the male baby also had such a jade pendant hanging on his waist, that triumphant expression, who else could it be if it was not the fourteenth elder brother? The bamboo basket glanced at the fourteenth elder brother. Seeing that Zhu Zhen understood, the fourteenth elder brother smiled and approached, "Doesn't it look like a statue?" ”

"Well, this girl is delicate and clever, but she has a bit of charm, as for this boy, ......" Zhu Zhen paused.

"How's the boy?" The fourteenth elder brother hurriedly asked.

"This boy's smiling appearance full of bad water is also very expressive." Deliberately glanced at the fourteenth elder brother, and said, "It's quite like someone!" ”

Without waiting for the fourteenth elder brother's clutches to stretch out, Zhu Zhen jumped away with a prescient smile. After laughing for a while, the fourteenth elder brother was invited away by his personal little eunuch.

Before the smile of the bamboo basket was put away, the door rang again. Zhu Zhen turned around to open the door, and saw that the person who came was Xiao Dizi, Zhu Zhen was shocked, and he didn't know if Xiao Di Zi and the Fourteenth Elder Brother had touched, but Xiao Dizi spoke first: "When the slave came, I saw the Fourteenth Master out of the courtyard, and the girl was relieved." ”

Only then did Zhu Zhen put his mind at ease, and thought again, no, even if Xiao Dizi and the Fourteenth Elder Brother met, what could they do, he was like this now, but he seemed to have a ghost in his heart, thinking about it, he couldn't help but make a big red face in hindsight.

The little flute was very good at handling things, and did not dwell on this matter, but handed over a wooden box, and a large lotus flower was carved out of the lid, and the glass was inlayed. The bamboo basket took the wooden box, and as soon as it was opened, familiar music sounded, this was actually a music box! And this piece of music is the "Lotus Picking Song" that I sang when I danced on my birthday last year. The little figure in the box is not a girl in a ballet dress that is familiar in modern times, but an ancient woman in a blue dress who is looking at the moon. The bamboo hoop put the villain on the stage, the villain began to dance, the platform made of turquoise, like a sparkling water surface, the platform is surrounded by lotus flowers or buds, emerald lotus leaves, it looks full of love.

Closing the lid, the bamboo basket sighed slightly, only stared at the box and said, "This, it's not good, right?" ”

Xiao Dizi thought that Zhu Zheng would be pleasantly surprised when he saw this rare thing, at least laughing a few times, but he didn't want Zhu Zhen to react like this, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, so he only whispered: "Master is a girl, it took a lot of thought." ”

The bamboo basket was silent, for a long time, he raised his head and glanced at the little flute, and said: "I don't know how to persuade your master to order, so I went out of the palace and built a mansion. ”

Seeing that the bamboo basket had returned to its usual appearance, Xiao Dizi breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart, the girl is like this, Xu is distressed that the master has broken the bill, and said with a smile: "The girl is wronged!" If the master is right, where can the slave speak? What's more, it's still a girl's business, and it's even more sloppy. That's it, I'm still worried that I won't be able to send it, I'm afraid that the girl won't like it! ”

Zhu Zhen pursed his mouth and said, "I know that your master is blessed with holy grace and has a lot of good things, why, I am here to show off?" ”

When Xiao Dizi heard this, he hurriedly said: "Girl, you have wronged our master, our father is to the girl, that is to dig out the heart and lungs, what is the good thing, the first one is to send it to the girl." After a pause, Xiao Dizi lowered his voice and said, "The girl doesn't know, a few days ago, the master went to the fifth master's mansion to eat and drink, and saw that the shadow puppet troupe invited by the fifth master's mansion was interesting, so he found a set to give to the girl to play, I don't want Honghui little brother to see it, I want to ask for it, and finally the shadow puppet is not in the girl's hand?" ”

"Then, how did the thirteenth elder brother coax the little elder brother?" Zhu Zhen blushed a little, she actually grabbed toys with a child.

Xiao Dizi said with a smile: "Hey, our grandfather promised the little brother to take him to see the lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and that's it." ”

Zhu Zhen nodded and instructed: "In the future, your grandfather will calculate and live a few days, and they will all be married people." ”

Xiao Dizi wanted to say something, but he didn't say it, so he should go down and leave.

The gift of Babel was sent at night, the food box, the bamboo basket is very familiar, the year before last when I was in the Babel Mansion, I used this food box, containing half a liter of red beans and half a liter of black beans, and then looked at the initial enthusiasm, little by little it became cold, little by little it broke, and finally had to be emptied.

Zhu Zhen ate the cake in small bites, and was able to achieve this taste, I think it was because he had been groping for a long time, and Zhu Zhen could even imagine that the kitchen brought dishes of cakes one after another, and Babel frowned slightly after tasting it, and then redid it, tried it again, and redid it again, until he gently spit out a single tone, and the whole kitchen was relieved. The cake is not big, but I don't know how much effort and materials have been spent in it, Zhu Zhen sighed lightly, and has not received a response several times, why do you have to be so obliged? Is it because of your innate pride that you don't give up easily no matter what you do? Or are you serious, you like Zakuta Bamboo Basket.

The tune of "Lotus Picking Song" sounded in the room, and last year's picture appeared in front of me again, it was so warm that day, even the wind carried hot and humid moisture, and the lotus leaves in the sky were layered on top of each other, and the smiling faces of the thirteen Agorang were like stars, and the long flute sound......

"Smack"! Everything came to an abrupt end, and with just one look, he shattered all the beauty of Fang Cai, and shattered the countless possibilities that he had secretly thought of, but he didn't think of this one.

Put the music box into the cabinet as well, and the bamboo basket checked it one last time and locked it.