In the afternoon, news came from the palace that the fourth elder brother Yinzhen and the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang were sent as ministers to raise funds for disaster relief. At the same time, the Eighth Elder Brother Yinyu and the Ninth Elder Brother Yinyu were sent to Henan Province to jointly take charge of disaster relief with local officials, and it was necessary to demand that the refugees be properly resettled and the spread of the disaster should be controlled, especially the outbreak of the plague.

This time, neither fundraising nor disaster relief did not appear in the name of Prince Yinren, obviously Kangxi was very disappointed with his performance in the household department during this time, especially since even he was in charge of the treasury to borrow, and if he wanted to collect the arrears next, the first point of the spearhead was probably the prince.

No one expected that Yin Chen and they had been gone for more than two months, and they could not rush back until the New Year, Yin Chen was not there, and all the women had no intention of celebrating the New Year, and they were only going to Hanyuan Ju on Chinese New Year's Eve to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. In addition to going to the Nala clan every day to ask An Shundao to speak, one of the things Ling Ruo must do every day is to watch the newspaper sent to the mansion, hoping to see Yinzhen's news from above, even if it is just a few words. Among them, the Nian clan had come to Ling Ruo to find trouble several times, but Ling Ruo was careful everywhere and had the help of the Nala clan because she didn't let her catch any tricks, and there was no danger. Yilan often comes over, a stay is a few days, every time I come back, I have to go to Linglong Pavilion to talk to Lingxi, it's strange to say, maybe she really has a relationship with Lingxi, Lingxi, who usually ignores people, often speaks when she is opposite to her, although there is no improvement for the time being, but it is always a good start.

Rong Yuan still comes to the house once a day, and the fetus in Ye Xiu's womb is gradually becoming stable under his careful care, although he still can't get out of bed, he can sit on the head of the bed for a while leaning on the soft pillow. She has survived eight months now, and even if the child is born now, there is a good chance of surviving.

As for the Li family, once Rong Yuan inadvertently said when he asked for Ling Ruo's pulse, Li's pulse image was a little strange, obviously she was more than six months pregnant, but this pulse image was like June and May, which made him incomprehensible.

The only surprise was that on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Li Dequan was ordered by Kangxi to summon Ling Ruo into the south study to meet him. This is the first time Kangxi has summoned Ling Ruo after the draft, and it is also the first time that the emperor has specially summoned a Shu Fujin who has not even been recorded in the royal family's name.

Ling Ruo worriedly followed Li Dequan to the south study, the south study is located in the southwest corner of the Qianqing Palace, is a confidential place for Kangxi to read, fold, and deliberate, since the establishment of Kangxi in the sixteenth year, there are Kangxi personally ordered Hanlin academicians on duty every day, such as Xiong Cixu, Zhang Tingyu, etc.

Li Dequan ordered the little eunuch to serve the newly brewed dragon well before the rain and lowered his hand and said: "The emperor will come over later, please Ling Fujin wait here, and the slave will retire first if he still has something to do." ”

"There's Father-in-law Lao Li." Li Dequan is a celebrity around Kangxi, Ling Ruo didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly returned the courtesy, after Li Dequan left, she carefully looked at this south study room, which is a confidential place even in the Forbidden City, and said in the court: Those who are not Chongban Guilin and Shang's cronies are not allowed to enter this place; I don't know why Kangxi chose this place to summon her.

This place is much wider than Yinzhen's study, there are many calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, most of them are authentic works of the previous dynasty, any one is worth a thousand gold, Ling Ruo sighed lightly when he saw one of the paintings, there is nothing else in the painting, only a woman with a beautiful complexion, no pearls and emeralds surrounded by gorgeous clothes and brocade clothes but has a dusty appearance, surprising that this woman is five or six points similar to her, which makes her suddenly think of what Rong Guifei said, is this person the Empress Xiaochengren?

The woman in the painting is obviously smiling, but Ling Ruo has a feeling of sadness, and the longer she looks at it, the more obvious that feeling becomes, behind the smile is an indescribable sadness, as if she is an immortal abandoned in the world, no one cares.

This makes her very ununderstanding, Empress Xiaochengren is the granddaughter of the head of the four auxiliary ministers in the Shunzhi period, Sonny, at the age of thirteen, she married Kangxi, who has ascended the throne as the emperor, after the wedding, the husband and wife are harmonious, and the couple is deeply affectionate, although there are three palaces and six courts, but no one can compare with the status of Empress Xiaochengren in the emperor's heart. After her death, the emperor was even more grief-stricken, and wrote countless sincere eulogies, I don't know how many women in the world are envious, why is there such sadness? It's just puzzling.

"You're here." Ling Ruo was so engrossed that he didn't even know when Kangxi came, until he came back to his senses with a vigorous voice in his ears, and when he looked back, he saw that Kangxi, who was wearing a bright yellow brocade tuanfu embroidered five-clawed golden dragon satin robe, was looking at him with blazing eyes.

"If Niu Hulu Ling sees the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor." Ling Ruo hurriedly made a big salute, although it was not the first time he had seen him, he was still a little uneasy in the face of this Ninety-Five Supreme.

"Get up." Kangxi waved his hand and smiled: "The last time I saw you was in Kangxi for forty-three years, and two years have passed in a blink of an eye, how is it, how are you in the old fourth mansion?" ”

"Thank you for your concern, the slave is very good." Ling Ruo stared nervously at his toes and didn't dare to raise his head, "I don't know what the emperor ordered to summon the slaves and maids?" "She is Shu Fujin, and according to the rules, she can only call herself a slave.

"Nothing." Kangxi saw her nervousness, sat down behind the table and opened a book of Analects casually: "I just suddenly had a whim, remembering the sound of your flute that night, I really want to listen to it again, can you play another song for me?" ”

Ling Ruo's heart was relieved, he pursed his lips and chuckled lightly, took out the jade flute that Kangxi had rewarded in the past from his sleeve, and stroked his fingers from the warm flute body, "When Gonggong Li came to deliver the decree, the slave maid thought that there was a chance to play another song for the emperor to thank the emperor for his kindness, so he took the jade flute with him, but he never thought that he would bring it right." ”

Kangxi nodded slightly, stroked the gray beard under his chin and said, "Let's blow the song "Flat Sand and Falling Geese"." Obviously talking to Ling Ruo, his eyes fell on the woman in the painting for a long time, revealing a look of remembrance. It was the sixth day of the first month of another year, and it had been forty-five years since that incident happened, and I had changed from an eight-year-old child to a fifty-three-year-old man......

Ling Ruo didn't know this, she took a deep breath and played the flute, and the scene of hovering on the plain and the geese falling and whirling came with the sound again, until the shadow of the geese could be vaguely seen in front of her when the song fell. People have affection to be able to play the true meaning of the song, which is a skill that no matter how clever a musician is, it can't be imitated, and it is also the reason why Kangxi likes to listen to her play music.

Ling Ruo saw that Kangxi was always staring at the person in the painting without saying a word, so he took the opportunity to ask, "Is she the emperor's wife?" ”

"No, it's an old man." Kangxi's answer surprised Ling Ruo, that person was not Empress Xiaochengren? But Concubine Rong clearly said that she was very much like Empress Xiaochengren, she had no reason to lie to herself when she was dying, if this person was not Empress Xiaochengren, who would let Kangxi put her portrait in the study.

"Do you feel a little like her?" Seeing Ling Ruo nodding, Kangxi got up and walked to the front of the painting, his fingers gently caressing the corners of the woman in the painting, with endless affection in his eyes, "Except for Fang'er, you are the person I have ever seen who looks most like her." There is another sentence Kangxi didn't say, when Ling Ruo was playing the flute, that kind of demeanor was exactly the same as her, even he had a momentary illusion, thinking that everything was still forty-five years ago, he was in Yanxi Palace while watching the flowers bloom and fall outside while listening to his aunt playing the piano and blowing the flute, happy and unscrupulous.

Fang'er? Isn't that the name of Empress Hesheri? Even Empress Hesheri is like her, who is she? According to Kangxi's words, this person seems to be a concubine in the Shunzhi period, Ling Ruo's heart was full of curiosity, and he asked sideways: "Does the emperor miss her very much?" ”

Kangxi Qingqu's face showed a bitter smile, "What can I do, I won't see you for a lifetime." That's it, don't talk about this, you can blow the flute, what about the piano, can you play? ”

Seeing that Kangxi didn't want to say more, Ling Ruo was very smart and didn't ask, and lowered his eyes and said, "I can play a little, but it's not good." ”

"Just play it." Kangxi clapped his hands, and immediately a little eunuch came in with Yaoqin in his arms, and after he stepped back, he motioned to Ling Ruo to stroke a song at will.

Hand, stroke the strings, almost didn't think much, a song "If you pity" came out, that is her favorite song, for the Jin Dynasty bamboo forest of the first of the seven sages of Ji Kang, and "Guangling San" as famous, after thousands of years, its meaning is loved by many literati.

Kangxi didn't care at first, but when he heard that the back was already discolored, the hands behind his back trembled slightly, how could it be? How could it be such a coincidence? He will not forget, this song is his aunt's favorite song during her lifetime, he has heard her play it more than once, he didn't expect Ling Ruo to choose a song the first time he played it, the people who served his aunt back then have all passed away, except for himself, it is impossible for anyone to know the Tao, is it really the aunt's manifestation?

Ling Ruo, who was concentrating on stroking the qin, did not notice Kangxi's excitement, she was immersed in the music of the qin.

For you, stain all the red dust and scatter the sorrow. I only hope that you and I can cherish each other until we grow old......

"Do you also like this song "If You Regret Each Other"?" After the last piano note also fell, Kangxi suppressed the excitement in his chest and asked.

"Yes." Ling Ruo didn't know what Kangxi was thinking, and after getting up, he smiled lightly: "The slave liked this song when she first heard it, does the emperor like it too?" ”

Kangxi smiled and said nothing, looking at Ling Ruo's gaze became more and more gentle, the theory of reincarnation is ethereal, but at this moment, he would rather believe that it is true.