Ling Ruo returned to Yonghe Palace, and saw Yinxiang standing in the courtyard talking jokes with the palace maids and eunuchs who were in charge of sprinkling and sweeping, and walked over and said, "Thirteenth Master, why are you alone?" ”

Yinxiang waved his hand to signal those people to disperse, grinning and revealing a bright smile, "Coming back?" Seeing that Mo Yu was holding a bunch of things in his hand, he said, "It seems that Jing Guiren is very good to you, and he brought so many things back." Without waiting for Ling Ruo to answer, he beckoned a little eunuch and said, "Go, put the things in her hand into the carriage where the fourth elder brother entered the palace, be careful, they are all rewarded by Jing Guiren, don't touch them." ”

"Don't worry, sir." The little eunuch agreed with a grin, and called another eunuch to carefully take the brocade boxes and put them in the carriage. Yinxiang is easy-going and arrogant by nature, never regardless of his origin, as long as he looks pleasing to the eye, he makes friends, because of this, whether it is in the palace or the barracks, the military department, he is very familiar with the people below, although the eighth brother and others look down on him and his subordinates or those rough people, but this does not hinder Yinxiang's prestige among them.

"The fourth brother, the fourth sister-in-law and the fourteenth brother are talking to De Niangniang in the palace, I see that there is nothing to do and it is not yet time to eat, so I came out to breathe." Yinxiang said as he casually sat on the stone bench placed in the courtyard.

Looking in from the half-hidden palace door, you can see that the hall is as Yinxiang said, everyone is chatting with Concubine De, and the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen doesn't know what to say, which makes Concubine De laugh for a while.

"Hey, why don't you see the fourth master?" Ling Ruo took a closer look and didn't find Yinzhen's figure.

Yinxiang stroked his braided hair tied with an apricot yellow belt, and the smile on his face was wiped out, and he said lightly: "The fourth brother is not inside, so he must have gone to Fengxian Palace." ”

Bongseonjeon? Ling Ruo was stunned for a while when he heard this, this Fengxian Hall is used to enshrine the tablet of the late emperor and queen, except for sacrifices, festivals or emblems, canonization, and canonization, no one usually goes, what does Yinzhen do there.

Yinxiang saw her doubts, patted the stone bench next to her and motioned for her to sit down, "Is it strange?" The fourth brother will go to Fengxian Hall every time he enters the palace. ”

"Is the fourth master going to worship anyone?" Will go to the Fengxian Palace can only be to worship the ancestors, and every time you enter the palace, it must be extremely affectionate, either father or mother, but the emperor and Concubine De are alive in the palace, who is Yinzhen going to worship?

"Empress Hyo Yi In." When he said this name, Yinxiang had a little sadness on his face, if Empress Xiao Yiren hadn't died so early, the fourth brother's life would have been completely different from now.

Empress Tong Jiashi, the third queen of the Holy Dynasty and his cousin, was canonized as a concubine in 16 years, and was promoted to the imperial concubine in 20 years. In the twenty-eighth year, the imperial concubine was seriously ill, and the Kangxi Ministry of Rites and Rites established Tong Jiashi as the middle palace, and died the next day.

Yinxiang's smile was as pale as the clouds on the horizon, and his gaze crossed Ling Ruo and fell into the unknown distance, with a bit of indescribable sadness, "When the fourth brother was born, De Niangniang was just a nobleman, and he couldn't raise the prince and the princess according to the rules, and at that time, he happened to meet the widow of Empress Xiao Yiren, and Huang Ama took the fourth brother to Chengqian Palace and handed it over to Empress Xiao Yiren to raise, until the fourth brother was nine years old when Empress Xiao Yiren died of illness before he was taken back to Changchun Gong, and that year De Niangniang just gave birth to Yinzhen not long after. ”

Ling Ruoshang heard about this for the first time, and her heart was suddenly shocked, and suddenly she was in the process of congratulating Concubine De on her birthday, she felt that Concubine De's attitude towards Yinzhen was a little weird, but her biological mother and son did not seem very close, until the picture of Baishou was presented to the rear and seemed closer, but she could still feel that there was a layer of estrangement, and she was never as intimate and natural as the fourteenth elder brother, but now everything is understood. At the age of nine, Fang returned to Concubine De's side, naturally not as affectionate as the fourteenth elder brother who had been raised by his side.

"That year, I was also taken to Concubine De because of the death of my mother, and there were two more children around me at once, and I and my fourteenth brother were so young, Concubine De couldn't take care of them at all, so I had to let the nurse and grandmother take care of me and the fourth brother." Yinxiang smiled abruptly, shook his head and said: "The servant bullies the master, it's such a thing everywhere, those individuals saw that we were young, and Concubine De didn't care about it, so they began to bully the head, and the fourth brother didn't listen to anything at all; I cried, and they didn't care. Who is called Huang Ama already had more than a dozen sons at that time, and no one cares about one or two princes who are not valued at all. ”

Ling Ruo looked sideways at Yin Xiang's angular face and said softly, "Didn't the fourth master and the thirteenth master have had a hard time in those years?" "As the emperor and nobleman, he should be the most noble person in the world, who would have thought that there would be such a tragic past.

Yinxiang shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I don't remember whether it's bitter or not, I was less than a year old at the time, what can I expect to remember?" This is all something I heard from Fu Ye later. "Fu Ye is the personal eunuch of Emperor Jingmin before his death, he is very concerned about the only blood left by Emperor Jingmin, but he was transferred to the imperial dining room after the death of Emperor Jingmin, and only occasionally when he is free can he sneak a look and bring some good things that he is reluctant to eat to the Yinzhen brothers. It can be said that he is one of the few people in the palace who really cares about Yinxiang, and the first thing Yinxiang did after he left the palace to open his teeth and build a mansion when he was an adult was to take Fu Ye to the mansion to live for a long time.

"Do I know what I am closest to the fourth brother?" Yinxiang asked suddenly.

Ling Ruo thought for a while and said, "You grew up together in Concubine De's Palace, so you are naturally closer than others. ”

"If that's the case, what about Old Fourteen? He is not close to the fourth brother, but he is very close to the starling brother. Yinxiang smiled indifferently, and the long and dusty memories slowly unfolded in his mind like a picture scroll, "The fourth brother saw that I was crying there and couldn't breathe, so he just took care of himself, cried and coaxed, made him hug, and even slept at night He was in charge, you must know that he was only nine years old at the time, and he was still a child, but he had to take care of a child who was not yet a year old, and the hardships can be imagined." But the most hateful thing is the nurse, she is from Jiangxi, she likes to eat salty and fresh dishes, and in order to produce good milk, the palace is not allowed to put salt in the dishes they eat, eat light and tasteless things all day long The nurse has long been unable to swallow, but because Concubine De does not dare to disobey, and now seeing Concubine De flawlessly taking care of us, she secretly put salt in the dishes she ate, so that the milk she came out was scarce and scarce, I couldn't eat at all, and I was so hungry that I cried. The fourth brother was anxious in his eyes, and he didn't know how many times he had found De Niangniang for this matter, but at that time, the old fourteen was sick, and De Niangniang only cared about the old fourteen, and had no time to pay attention to the fourth brother, and even reprimanded the fourth brother because of upset. Speaking of this, there were tears in Yinxiang's eyes, although he had no impression, he could still imagine the desolation and helplessness of the fourth brother at that moment.

Ling Ruo listened attentively, she never knew that the fourth elder brother, who had always given people a cold and tough feeling, still had such a childhood, and she saw the appearance of Yinzhen, who was only nine years old but holding a baby, appeared in front of her.

Tears fell in the twilight......

For the first time, she cried because of Yinzhen, not about grace, not about herself, just because she felt sorry for Yinzhen. At the same time, the heart of the layers of defense is quietly collapsing......

[Author's digression]: I have a sour nose written in this chapter, Yinzhen, Yinzhen.

In addition, about the typos that the book friends said, uh, I will read the text myself every time I post it, in order to try to avoid typos and wrong plots, it may be that I didn't read it carefully so I didn't miss it, please forgive me.