After straightening up, Bai Shi said tentatively: "Concubine Li's side, should I go to ......?"

Ci'an smiled and said: "It's not necessary, the thing is out of me, you can let Guan Zhuofan accept my affection." ”

After a slight hesitation, he said: "However, a small belly pocket is not worth anything, and you don't need to mention this matter in the 'west'." ”

Bai's heart moved again, and said, "Yes, the concubine knows." ”

Back to Changchun Palace, pass the meal, two tables in duplicate, one table for the host and guest, what the imperial meal has, what the Bai family has. This decency is the Bai family's "exceptional" treatment in Changchun Palace and Zhongcui Palace, and there is no need to say more. After passing the meal, it was close to the palace gate, and the Bai family resigned Cixi, and Yu'er and left Changchun Palace.

As soon as he left the palace gate, Bai quietly asked Yu'er: Have you had dinner? Hungry or not?

Yu'er smiled and said, "Madame is worried." I haven't eaten yet, but I'm not hungry - I'm not hungry! ”

Bai Shi laughed in a low voice: "You bear with it, when you get to the house, I will ask the kitchen to make you something to eat - you can eat whatever you want, just eat with your belly open!" ”

Under the sunset, Yu'er's big eyes were shining, "Thank you, madam!" ”

According to the rules in the palace, when the palace maid is on duty, she is not allowed to eat enough, and she cannot drink too much water. This is because I am afraid that I will eat enough and drink too much water, and when I am serving my master, I will suddenly feel anxious, and then it will be troublesome.

After entering the palace, Yu'er hardly had any chance, she could eat and drink happily, and now she can be regarded as "fulfilling her long-cherished wish"!

Out of the Forbidden City from the Donghua Gate, Bai took Yu'er's hand. got into his own green cover Zhu Ying eight treasure car.

After getting in the car. Bai asked Yu'er to sit beside him. Yu'er said, "There is no such rule," and she had to sit on a small stool opposite. Bai Shi said angrily: "You sit so far away, how can the two of us talk?" He pulled her and sat down beside him.

Bai Shi held Yu'er's hand with one hand, and reached out with the other hand, pulling a strand of loose hair to her sideburns for her. With admiration in his mouth, he said: "Yu'er, you are so handsome." Well, it's good to be young, these little hands. But it's so slippery and so tender! ”

Speaking of this, he smiled quietly and said, "If I were a man, I would definitely not be able to control it at this time." ”

Yu'er was ashamed, and involuntarily struggled, but she didn't struggle, so she had to blush and say, "Is Madam making fun of us as slaves?" Well, we all said in private that Madame is one of the best beauties among our flag people, um. 'Don't you dare let the emperor see it!' ’”

"Don't you dare to let the emperor see it" - Bai Shi thought, this sentence has also been said to himself before. When was that? Why do you think about it like a lifetime ago?

I sighed softly in my heart.

Bai Shi smiled slightly and said, "Okay, you make fun of me in turn - I'm already an old woman, what can I look at?" ”

After a pause, he asked, "Yu'er, how old are you this year?" ”

"Eighteen."

"Well, that's going to be a few years."

Yu'er understood what Bai was saying. Palace maids generally enter the palace at the age of thirteen and leave the palace at the age of twenty-five. At that time, a twenty-five-year-old woman was an absolute "older leftover woman". It can be said that as long as she is selected as a palace maid, her youth will be dissipated in the ninefold majesty for a lifetime.

Bai sighed softly and continued: "The Queen Mother is the most sympathetic to her subordinates, and she will never delay your youth - she will definitely not let you out of the palace until the end of the year." It's just that you are so capable, and the side of the Queen Mother is really inseparable from you, which is embarrassing. ”

Yu'er bit her lip lightly and didn't speak.

Bai's words touched the most secret worries and hopes in her heart.

"The most sympathetic to the subordinates, will never delay your youth - it will definitely not be the end of the year before letting you out of the palace" - this sentence, put on the queen mother and queen mother, about good; On the Queen Mother, Yu'er is not sure. If you really don't leave the palace until you are twenty-five years old, what kind of decent family can a twenty-five-year-old girl promise?

Besides, he is a person who has served the Queen Mother, and ordinary people do not dare to "climb" themselves, and they may not be able to see it. If you are not careful, you will really be "high or low", and you will waste a lifetime!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh too.

Bai Shi smiled slightly and said, "Why, on weekdays, has the Queen Mother ever talked to you about this?" ”

Yu'er hesitated for a moment and said softly, "The Queen Mother never told us about these things. It's the Queen Mother's side of the Queen Mother...... I bit my tongue with Xi'er in private, and Xi'er said, the queen mother asked what kind of family she was willing to promise when she left the palace in the future? The Queen Mother can give her a marriage. ”

"Oh, then how did Xi'er go back to the Queen Mother?"

"At the beginning, Xi'er's little hoof, Qiao Zhangzhi, said, 'That's not all according to the will of the Queen Mother?' I'm a slave, what can I say I want to do? The Queen Mother said, 'That's not what she said. If you value your identity and have a long-term perspective, I will pick a 'third-class shrimp' for you in the 'Shangsanqi'. As long as the young guards are willing to be motivated, it is not uncommon for them to be released in the future, to be admirals and generals; If you want to live a comfortable life as soon as you get married, then the most fat Yamen in Beijing is the Internal Affairs Office, and it is not bad to find someone with a good family background in the Internal Affairs Office to point you out. ’”

Bai Shi looked very interested and asked, "How did Xi'er choose?" ”

Yu'er said: "Xi'er, that girl, is arrogant, of course she is willing to choose a guard who is 'on the three flags'." ”

Bai smiled and asked, "What if it's you?" What would you choose? ”

Yu'er lowered her head and said, "I'm not comparable to Xi'er." Although we are both 'Baoyi', her father is a 'leader', an official from the fourth grade, and my father is just a 'pen post style', a small official of the ninth grade. ”

Bai Shi shook his head slightly, and said solemnly: "What you said is not right. "Heroes don't ask where they come from", our family's Lord Belle, when he played Bali Bridge, was just a foreign commissioner Lan Lingchang, and he happened to be a ninth grade - now? ”

Yu'er glanced at Bai Shi gratefully, and said, "Everyone says that Lord Belle is a great hero who can only produce one in hundreds of years, and he is a star in the sky, who can compare with him?" But if I'm Xi'er......"

Speaking of this, he hesitated, and his voice lowered.

Bai Shi squeezed her hand, showed encouragement, and said, "You say! ”

Yu'er blushed and said: "The people of the Internal Affairs Office, up and down, are all eating nonsense, messy, in my opinion, their good days are not long!" I'm not going to pick them! But if I were Xi'er, I wouldn't choose the guards of the 'Three Banners'. ”

Bai was surprised and interested, and asked, "Why is this?" ”

Yu'er said: "Madame knows, the biggest skill of our young guards on the three banners is to lie on the merits of the ancestors and brag about it, how many of them are really promising?" Belle's name is 'unborn', it's an 'odd number', and there won't be a second one! Now the governors and governors in the world, the generals and admirals who can really fight, are almost all Han Chinese, and the 'third-class shrimp' of the 'Three Banners' are generals and admirals? I don't know what year or month it will take me? ”

An eighteen-year-old girl has such insight, which is really unexpected!

Bai Shi was quite surprised in his heart: I really can't underestimate this girl!

Yu'er blushed and "concluded": "So, I don't know how to choose." ”

Bai Shi nodded and said solemnly: "Yu'er, you are really a good boy with knowledge and ambition, you deserve a good home!" ”

After a deep sigh, he said, "If you don't dislike it, well, if you can trust it, how about leaving this matter to me and Lord Baylor?" ”

Yu'er trembled, her eyes shone brightly, and her voice trembled a little: "This, I ......"

Bai smiled and said: "Under Lord Belle's hands, there are a few promising young people, when the time comes, Lord Belle and I will ask the Queen Mother for the Holy Mother, how about being this matchmaker for you?" ”

"However, the Manchus and the Han cannot intermarry......"

"Well, what time is this? Still pay attention to this? There are many ways to workaround, you two have taken a fancy to each other, let's ask the Queen Mother to make a decree and raise the flag of the groom. Besides, you are still young, and when you get married, maybe the rule that 'Manchus and Han cannot intermarry' has been abolished! ”

Yu'er's face was as red as a ripe apple, but without any hesitation, she knelt down for Bai Shi in the car: "Thank you, Mrs. Chengcheng!" ”

*(To be continued......)