At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the grass grows and insects grow, the sun gradually grows, and the weather is hot day by day.

Huai Sleeve still accompanies Xiaozhuang Buddha Hall every morning to chant and worship the Buddha, only the last time Xiaozhuang knew that Huai Sleeve will make tea, the imperial tea room in Cining Palace will be handed over to Huai Sleeve to cook, and other miscellaneous things do not need to be done by Huai Sleeve himself, only study fresh tea.

Tea books, plants and other things were originally Huai Sleeve liked, so he did not shirk, everyone gradually knew that Huai Sleeve cooking things are very lean, and treat people and others are kind and gentle, everyone in the palace praised its virtue, and gradually Cining Palace should be trivial in addition to asking Su Mala Aunt is to ask Huai Sleeve.

In the early morning of the next day, it was the new yang desert, and as soon as he copied a few pages of the scriptures, he didn't feel the tightness in his chest, and raised his eyes to look out the window, and the sky gradually had thick clouds pressing over, gradually becoming a trend of condensation.

Huai Sleeve thought that the half basket of peony stamens picked in Wanzhen Garden the day before yesterday was still hanging on the tea shelf in the back garden, so he put aside his pen and got up to clean up.

Although the momentum of the ink clouds is getting stronger, the sun that is temporarily uncovered overhead still casts a blazing halo, which is dazzling.

Huai sleeve did not hold an umbrella, only covered his eyes with his hands, the stamen was originally delicate and the most unbearable to withstand the sun exposure, the peony stamen had already dried, Huai Sleeve twisted a flower with his fingers, gently rubbed, the pale yellow stamen core was scattered, a crescent moon smile bloomed on the face, and I thought that I should borrow a medicine from Shang Pharmacy.

But Qiaozhu Qing walked out of the front hall, smiled without saying a word when he saw his sleeves, and said: "I was about to look for you, the ancestor called you, but there is a good thing!" ”

"What's good?" Holding a small bamboo basket with stamens in his sleeve and about to go back to Zhihuazhai, he asked when he heard Zhuqing.

"You'll know when you go." Zhu Qing smiled and grabbed the other arm of his sleeve and went to the front hall together.

Picking up the curtain, he approached the Xiliang Pavilion with his sleeves, and saw that Aunt Su Mala was also there, Xiaozhuang wore a coupling color placket embroidered thin shirt, and when he saw that Xiaozhuang was wearing regular clothes, he knew that he was not going out, and he saluted and stood beside him.

Xiaozhuang first said: "Every year in the hot summer, the summer heat in the capital is unbearable, the emperor takes the harem concubines and a minister to Chengde Pavilion every year to escape the summer heat, and only comes back after the autumn, I have also been to the summer resort in previous years, last year because of leg disease laziness and walking around did not go, this year is only the early summer I feel that the climate is hot and unbearable, I just discussed with Sister Man, this year together with the drive to Chengde to escape the summer, I want to take you with me, go back to pack up, but a few days to leave. ”

When Xiaozhuang's words fell, Aunt Su Mala smiled and said: "In previous years, Huai Yatou has not entered the palace, I don't know how many palace maids and eunuchs in the palace are looking forward to driving Chengde, and Huai Yatou can accompany her to travel in the palace in the first year." ”

Huai Sleeve hurriedly thanked him when he heard this, Xiaozhuang and other attendants in Cining Palace, etc., Su Mala Aunt recommended several palace maids in Huai Sleeve Zhi Hua Zhai, Xiaozhuang agreed, Huai Sleeve thanked Jian Yue and others together, and came out with Su Malagu.

Walking to the door of Su Malagu's Buddhist room, he was about to say goodbye, but Su Malagu said: "Going to the Chengde Pavilion is not as clean as the single-door courtyard in our Cining Palace. Although we still live alone, we can have a lot more contacts with the imperial palace concubines and princes and ministers than usual, and you must also be more prepared, although there are special people in charge of all miscellaneous matters, but with your intelligence, you should be able to see that the queen mother intends to cultivate you, and you must not lose her kindness. ”

Huai sleeve heart is hot, every time this matter Su Mala Aunt must be Yin Yin admonishment, this situation in the future if there is an opportunity to be reported by Yongquan, but in front of the mouth only to say thank you, in the heart of the note.

Huai sleeves returned to Zhihuazhai to inform everyone about the Chengde Summer Resort, and everyone was overjoyed.

Fuquan couldn't help but say: "I have never had such a good thing on the wheel since I entered the palace, every year in the palace to spend the summer, the hot people on the mat at night are like cooked pancakes, this year can be regarded as the blessing of the girl, follow the light, say out and envy those who looked down on me in the past!" ”

"Our girl has always been restrained, and you like to show off in front of everyone." Lian Bi Chongfu stuck out his tongue and grimaced.

"What is this, it is! Now who dares to look down on the people outside who know how to paint the house? They are all in a hurry behind their backs, and they also say that our girl will be a person from the Lord of Long Live sooner or later! Fuquan said that he was complacent, but he didn't pay attention to the fact that his face had already changed slightly when he heard this.

The two big girls of Jian Yue and Lianqiu knew Huai Sleeve's thoughts, and rushed to glare at Fuquan, "Xiao Quanzi, dare to talk nonsense in front of the girl even if the rumors spread outside are rumored!" Jian Yue scolded sharply.

Fuquan realized that he had lost his words, stuck out his tongue, and lowered his head happily.

"Forget it, Jian Yue came in and grinded, I want to copy the scriptures for a while, and everyone else will disperse." Huai Sleeve's face quickly calmed down as usual, and slowly turned into the blue yarn cabinet in the west room.

Juanqiu and Yingxue, Lianbi and others quietly withdrew from the main hall, and Lianbi couldn't help but reprimand Fuquan in a low voice: "It's all you, make the girl unhappy!" Fu Quan's voice of defense gradually faded out of the courtyard, leaving only silence.

"Jianyue, what's going on outside?" Holding the pen in his sleeve lightly soaked in ink, his voice was soft, and he couldn't hear the slightest emotion.

The ink strip in Jian Yue's hand paused slightly in Huang Yanyu's graphite, and said, "Don't take it to heart, girl, Fu is all talking about playing." ”

Huai Sleeve only held the pen, letting a drop of ink fall on the fine white rice paper, gradually rendering layers of black halos, Huai Sleeve stared at Jian Yue's lowered face, and only watched quietly.

Jian Yue only felt a tingle on her back, but she didn't dare to meet the gaze of her sleeves, so she had to say in a loud voice: "There are some rumors about the girl outside, saying that the girl received the reward of the Long Live Lord in the Wanzhen Garden, and the Long Live Lord next to the Lord did not reward, but rewarded the girl Ruyi, which is to prove that the girl is as Long Live Lord's will, and sooner or later she will be the person of Long Live Lord." ”

"Where did you hear these words?" Huai Sleeve stretched out his hand to open a new page of the scriptures, and asked in a soft tone.

"I'm afraid it's all over the city by now."

When Huai Sleeve heard the word "full city", he only felt a sudden tingling pain in his right arm. He was also there that day, and he must have heard about it......

The heat of summer is gradually spreading, and the restless atmosphere stirs people's minds and loses the usual tranquility.

The trip to Chengde is imminent, in addition to rushing out of the need to bring the scriptures, in addition to keeping a more god for the imperial tea room, the value of other trivial matters filial piety is gradually handed over to the care of the sleeve, and the worries that have risen in the heart have gradually been replaced by busyness.

Finally, when the day of departure came, the sleeves were all ordered, and Su Malagu took a sedan chair in the same car, accompanied by the Fengluan honor guard of Xiaozhuang and the chariot and horse sedan chair of the emperor and the harem concubines, and drove out of the Forbidden City and went to Chengde Summer Resort.