This year's winter was colder than usual, and the first light snow fell when the jade root in the pond was not yet ripe.

As the saying goes, there are seedlings that don't worry about growth, and it's only been a few months, and Xiao Qinghua can already sit up with his fingers in his arms.

The cage in the main hall is extremely warm, and the sleeves are only wearing a pipa placket with wind hair, sitting on the warm kang near the window to tease Tsinghua to catch jade Ruyi and play.

"Does Grandpa Zhang have something to reply? Why don't you go in and shake up something outside? Outside the window, a little palace maid asked with a smile.

"That's what the little master is in, can we dust off the robes?" As Zhang Bao spoke, there were several sounds of slapping his clothes.

Huai sleeve said to Zhuo Qiu, who was waiting in front of him: "You go and call Zhang Bao in." ”

Zhuo Qiu went out for a while, and Zhang Bao walked in, still teasing Qinghua on the couch with his sleeves down, and said casually: "The more expensive the children's family, the more difficult it is to raise, and you don't need to be too cautious in the future." ”

Zhang Bao knew that Huai Sleeve must have heard what he and the palace maid said under the eaves of the porch, nodded in response, and then said: "Back to the master, when the slave sent someone to send honey cheese to the Lord Banzai, I heard that Xiao Yu said that Lord Chen of the Criminal Department who escorted Suofu to Ningguta had returned to Beijing yesterday and entered the palace to meet him this morning." ”

Huai Sleeve tilted his head and thought about it, raised his eyebrows and said, "Walking so fast?" The days I counted before I arrived at Ningguta will be after the New Year. As he spoke, the palm-sized purple jade in his hand had been snatched away by Xiao Qinghua.

Huai Sleeve was afraid that she would send it to her mouth, and wanted to reach out to get it back, but he heard Zhang Bao say again: "According to the time when the master said it at the time, the slave heard that Master Chen came back before arriving in Ningguta......

"Oh?" Huai Sleeve glanced at Zhang Bao sideways, Zhang Bao arched his hand and said in a low voice: "According to Xiao Leek, the people of Suofu just went out of the pass, and a team of soldiers came out of nowhere, riding a whirlwind as if they only made a turn, and slaughtered hundreds of men, women, and children in Suofu, and there was not a single living mouth, but half of Lord Chen's soldiers were not injured. ”

Yu Ruyi, who had just been holding in his hand, was snatched away by Xiao Qinghua again without paying attention, babbling happily in front of him, Huai Sleeve slowly lowered his eyes and was silent for a moment, waved his hand lightly to Zhang Bao, and Zhang Bao quietly retreated.

He picked up the teacup with his sleeves, put half a cup of warm tea in his mouth, and said lightly: "Lan Chang is afraid that he doesn't know about this, right?" ”

Yin Ling'er was adding incense tablets to the furnace, and when she heard Huai Sleeve suddenly ask, she was stunned before replying: "Lan Chang is being relegated to the abandoned hall of Beiyuan, that place is remote, and most of them haven't listened to the letter." ”

Huai sleeve handed Tsinghua to the grandmother to hug, got up and walked to the table, and the pen was full of cinnabar ink used by Kangxi to read the folds on weekdays, and the cinnabar ink fell on the snow-white plain paper like flowing water. The snow-white paper is lined with red ink, and it is as shocking as blood.

After writing in his sleeve, he carefully dried the ink, stuffed it into an envelope with a declining signature and handed it to Yin Ling'er: "You personally send this letter to Lan Changzai, remember, when she finishes reading it, she will burn the letter immediately." ”

Yinling'er took the letter and wondered: "But what if she is not willing to return the letter to the slave?" ”

Huai Sleeve Feng's eyes narrowed slightly, the corners of his lips hooked a rare cold smile, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, when she reads the letter, most of them can't care about it anymore." ”

Yin Ling'er nodded inexplicably, glanced at the envelope in his hand, and silently withdrew, leaving only his sleeves to sit alone in front of the table, calmly and calmly washing the cinnabar in the brush little by little in the pen washing.

It wasn't until lunchtime that Silver Bell returned. When entering the main hall, the sleeves are crooked on the brocade couch and scrolls.

The warmth in the room fell on Yinling'er's cold cheeks, she was stunned for a moment, and only came back to her senses after a moment, and when she wanted to kowtow to Huai Sleeve, Huai Sleeve had already exempted her from the courtesy.

Yin Ling'er knelt on the ground and hesitated slightly, but still kowtowed to his sleeve uprightly.

"The letter was shown to her?" Huai Sleeve asked softly, his eyes still not off the page.

Yin Ling'er knelt on the ground and said in a low voice: "Back to the master, the slaves and maids have all done what the master has explained, and Lan Chang is in her...... Crazy......"

After listening to this, he only paused and continued to turn the page, and said lightly: "Crazy? In the end, it was still cheaper for her. ”

Yin Ling'er kowtowed again, she knew in her heart that the reason why Huai Sleeve did this was because she was holding back the breath when Concubine De was killed.

Kangxi remembered the love between Hesheri and Princess Yueqing back then, although Baolan killed Concubine De, she was not assigned with Suofu, but was only demoted from concubine to permanent and imprisoned in the abandoned palace in the north of the palace.

On that day, Huai Sleeve did not say anything when he heard the news, and lay on the bed at night, but he couldn't fall asleep over and over again, until the second half of the night, Yin Ling'er faintly heard the whispering of Huai Sleeve in the warm tent.

Before, I only thought she was going to drink tea, but when she got closer, Yinling'er heard it clearly, it turned out that Huai Sleeve was dreaming, but what she said was: "When one life is worth one life, it is considered fair......"

It turns out that this matter, like her, has always been engraved in her bones.

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This year, the sound of firecrackers outside the palace, the palace is very calm, Kangxi's body has not been very good in winter, when it is close to the wax moon, it is easy to get rid of the cold disease completely, but for some reason it suddenly rises, saying that the spring will be renovated in the spring of next year.

The rewards near the New Year Festival and the banquet of the harem were all handled by Huai Sleeve himself, because he knew that Kangxi was in a good mood, Huai Sleeve specially ordered all parts of the Internal Affairs Office, along with the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, to be simple, just to make Kangxi's heart clear.

The only good news in the palace is that Concubine Hui has added a little prince to Kangxi safely.

"Master, Aunt Su Ma is here." When a palace maid came in to speak, she had already opened the brocade curtain and led Su Malagu to walk in from the outer compartment.

Huai Sleeve immediately got up to greet and greet out of the hug Xia, not waiting for Su Mala Aunt to ask for peace, she had already sat up with her hand in her hand, and her own palace people added tea up, when Su Mala Gu held the teacup to warm her hands, she raised her eyes and looked at Huai Sleeve and said softly: "Recently, you have lost weight again." ”

Huai sleeves lowered his eyes and smiled lightly: "The New Year has always been tiring, these aunts all know it, and it is normal to lose weight." ”

Su Malagu said: "I know that these things are for you, and you can do them with your eyes closed, but you have the heart of the Twelve Baylors and the Long Live Lord in your heart after all." ”

Huai Sleeve was silent, and asked in a low voice: "Is this doctor useless now?" ”

Su Malagu couldn't help sighing: "I feel that the current prescription is not as good as the previous one, these days Twelve Baylor and I privately said that he took medicine, and he always felt that his head was stuffy, and he couldn't even listen to the four Baylors to read to him for half an hour, why don't you try to change doctors." ”

Huai Sleeve always lowered his eyes, and only after a while did he say: "The last time the Lord Long Live summoned the five doctors in the palace, this is already the fifth......"

When Aunt Su Mala heard this, she lowered her eyebrows and didn't speak again. When the two sat silently opposite each other, Yuehe walked in from the outer compartment, holding a tray with a white jade carved Pisces pendant, hanging down the water-red Yingluo, looking bright and lovely.

"The master's congratulatory gift slave has been sent to Yanqing Palace, and the concubine Niangniang personally received it, this is the gift of the concubine Niangniang to the master, saying that it is for the little master to wear and play." As Tsukihe spoke, he presented the double fish in front of his sleeve.

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