On this day, Ling Ruo got up early, washed up, and watched the morning sun poke its head out of the clouds, sprinkling the vigorous and brilliant sunshine that also made people feel hot.

Mo'er, who had been busy all morning, wiped his sweat and said with some complaints: "It's so hot every day, and I don't know when it will cool down." ”

Ling Ruo looked back and smiled: "It's only the beginning of July now, and there must be a month left, and there will be autumn tigers in autumn." ”

Hearing this, Mo Er suddenly let out a sigh of relief, and said weakly: "Being said by the master, the slave and maid feel even hotter, and it is hot without some hope." ”

"You girl." Ling Ruo scolded with a smile, turned around and entered the house, Shui Xiu and they had already set up breakfast, Ling Ruo had just picked up his chopsticks, and saw Hongli walking in, and said strangely: "Why did you get up so early?" Then he turned his gaze to Xiao Zhengzi, who came in after Hongli, "But you forgot the instructions of the palace and called the fourth elder brother up?" ”

"The minions don't." Xiao Zhengzi hurriedly shook his head, "It was the fourth elder brother who got up by himself." ”

Hongli also followed: "Eniang, it's not about Xiao Zhengzi, I'll go to the study to listen to Master Zhu's lecture later, how can my son get up late." ”

Ling Ruo said distressedly: "But you haven't closed your eyes for two days and two nights, look, it's dark under your eyes, and your face is not good." Listen to E-Niang's words, don't go to class today, Master Zhu knows what happened these days, he won't blame you, and if you don't do it, E-Niang will let Shui Xiu talk about it. ”

Hongli said resolutely: "No, Erchen wants to go to class, otherwise he will ......" He lowered his head gloomily and said: "Staying in the palace and doing nothing will only make Erchen think of the third brother." ”

Seeing that Hongli was sad, Ling Ruo was also quite uncomfortable, hugged him in his arms, and comforted: "Don't think about the past anymore, E-Niang believes that Hongsheng doesn't want to see you like this in the sky." ”

"Eniang, Erchen really misses the third brother, when I fell asleep last night, I dreamed that the third brother took Erchen and Hongday to ride a horse." Speaking of sadness, Hongli couldn't help but shed tears, this is what Hongsheng once promised them, originally said to wait for the autumn to ride a horse to hunt, but now it has become a sentence that will never be realized.

"Alas......" Ling Ruo sighed and hugged him tighter, "You are a man, you can't cry easily, although the third elder brother is gone, E-Niang believes that he doesn't want to see you cry either." Seeing that Hongli still looked sad, he said: "Hongli, if you really want to imagine Hongsheng, you will live his share together, no matter what difficulties you encounter, you will live well." ”

After a long time, Hongli finally nodded and choked up: "Erchen knows that Erchen knows the way, and Erchen will live with the third brother's share." ”

Ling Ruo let go of him with a smile, smoothed out his somewhat crumpled clothes, and said, "Then be obedient, let's eat, otherwise Master Zhu will punish you for being late, don't cry." ”

Ling Ruo's explanation made Hongli feel a lot more comfortable, and he also had the heart to joke, "E-niang is talking nonsense, Erchen doesn't love to cry so much." ”

Ling Ruo pointed to the place on his shoulder that was wet by Hongli just now and said deliberately: "Ah, I don't know who was crying on the shoulder of the palace just now, Fourth Elder Brother, do you know Lu Dao?" ”

"Where will Erchen know the way." Hongli blushed a little, and without waiting for Ling Ruo to ask again, he hurriedly stroked his stomach and said, "I'm so hungry, Aunt Shuixiu, you hurry up and serve a bowl of porridge for me." ”

Seeing Hongli changing the topic there, Ling Ruo shook his head and chuckled, Hongli is a strong child, although Hongsheng's death is a great blow to him, but I believe that over time, he will definitely be able to turn this blow into his motivation to move forward, and go down step by step.

And all he has to do is to do everything in his power to protect him from being hurt until he grows strong enough.

Because he was going to class, Hongli hurriedly ate a few bites and left, leaving Ling Ruo alone, after drinking a bowl of porridge, Ling Ruo refused Shui Xiu's move to serve another bowl for her, but said: "It's all cleaned up?" ”

Shui Xiu said while taking a piece of mung bean cake and putting it on the small plate in front of Ling Ruo: "According to the master's instructions, everything has been cleaned, the slave and maid sank the needle into the Linyuan Pool, and the pair of shoes were put in the stove after the face was removed, and as for the removed face, An'er has also been connected to the soles of another pair of shoes, and sewn them according to the original stitches, so as to ensure that there are no flaws." The slave is now worried, what if the medicine doesn't work? ”

Ling Ruo wiped the corners of his lips and said: "Imperial Doctor Xu said that if it is effective, it will definitely be effective, even if it is really invalid, this palace also has a way to deal with this humble villain." She swept the breakfast that was still left on the table and said, "Go down and eat, this palace wants to go out for a walk, just let Mo Er accompany you." ”

After Ling Ruo left, Yang Hai said with a strange expression: "Shui Xiu, what kind of dumb riddle did you and your master play just now, why can't I understand a word?" ”

Shui Xiu put a plate of dim sum into Yang Hai's arms, and said mysteriously: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed, Yang Gonggong should eat the pastries raw, and watch a good show later." ”

didn't ask the result, Yang Hai felt like a cat was scratching, unspeakably uncomfortable, but Shui Xiu refused to say that he couldn't help it, so he had to eat snacks sullenly.

Yesterday, the whole palace was busy with Hongsheng's funeral, and no one noticed that An'er had asked for a waist card to leave the palace, let alone that she went out of the palace to find Rong Yuan, and the purpose was just to ask for a medicine.

July is not the season for cherry blossoms, and there are no pink petals in sight of the cherry blossom trees, only green leaves and chirping summer cicadas perched on the trees.

Listening to the disturbing cicadas, Mo Er said: "I only stuck to the cicadas a few days ago, and now there are so many of them, it seems that I have to catch them again, otherwise by their calls, the master will not be able to sleep at noon." ”

When Ling Ruo heard this, he said with interest: "Then you go and bring the sticky rod, this palace will watch you catch cicadas." ”

Although it was starting to be a little hot at this time, it was still quite cool to stand in the shadows, and not long after Mo Er left, he and two palace people came with sticky rods and nets to catch cicadas. The division of labor between the three is also clear, two people are sticky, and one person is in a pocket. I think it's because there are many cicadas on the tree, so I caught several of them after a while, but there are also a few times when I am about to catch them, so that the cicadas find that they are flapping their wings and flying to another branch to continue calling.

Mo Er was originally in a pocket, but she saw that one of the palace people was unfamiliar with her movements, and was often escaped by the cicadas that were about to be caught, so she took the initiative to take the sticky rod, her movements were both light and fast, and the palace people just now were diametrically opposed, sometimes one shot could catch two.

After they finished catching, the cicadas on the trees were really much lighter, no longer so harsh, at that time Shui Xiu finished breakfast, came over and said: "Mo'er, you go down to eat, master, I am waiting here." ”

As soon as Mo Er turned around, he suddenly saw a person standing outside the open palace gate, and exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, Liu Chang is here?" ”

Following Mo Er's gaze, she saw Liu standing outside the palace gate, talking to the little eunuch guarding the door, as if she wanted him to report, after feeling Ling Ruo's gaze, she replied with a gentle smile, but still kept the rules and did not come in.