Only then did he enter the mansion with his sleeves in his arms, and saw Xue Yan wandering alone on the stone path. Huai Sleeve stepped forward and asked, "Why are you wandering around here alone?" ”

Xue Yan saw that her sleeves were back, and her tense expression immediately eased: "Oops! My dear, you're back. Xue Yan ran over and hugged her arm, as if she was afraid that she would fly.

"What's the matter? Take your time. Huai Sleeve looked shocked and patted Xue Yan's hand to reassure.

"In the afternoon, a few people in Mongolian robes came to the house to look for adults, and then the adults followed those people out, they walked on the front foot, and Fujin sent someone to look for you on the back foot. Su'er and I didn't know if it was a matter of urgency, and we didn't dare to say that you went out alone with Rong Gongzi, so we lied and said that you stayed up late and slept late last night, and you didn't wake up from your nap today, so you only hung a gauze tent and didn't let the girl go in to see. ”

When Huai Sleeve heard this, he frowned and asked, "What happened later?" Did the second sister ask again? ”

Xue Yan said: "Because that girl saw that Su'er and I were in the room, I didn't suspect and went back, but fortunately, Fujin didn't send anyone again, this time it looks like I'm going to pass the food, you haven't come back, I'm in a hurry, so I have to wait here." ”

Huai Sleeve patted Xue Yan's shoulder and said comfortingly: "It's hard for you and Su'er to help me hide it, I'll go to the second sister, you go back first." He sent Xueyan back and went to the second sister's house with his sleeves in his arms.

As we walk, we ponder: a man in a Mongolian robe? Could it be from the Karaqin steppe? Is it someone sent by the eldest sister? With doubts in his arms, he stepped into the threshold of the second sister's main room.

"Second sister? Are you looking for me? As soon as Huai Sleeve entered the door, he saw the second sister Zhu Hetana leaning on the big pillow on the soft couch, holding the Buddhist beads and reading the Buddhist scriptures. Hearing the voice of her sleeve, Zhu Hetana gently placed the scroll on the wooden table next to her, looked at the chiming bell on the cabinet and smiled: "You can be considered awake, I was about to send someone to call again." ”

"I heard Xue Yan say that a few people in Mongolian robes came to the house to look for their brother-in-law, are they from Karaqin? Did the eldest sister bring the letter? As soon as Huai Sleeve sat down, he couldn't wait to ask.

The second sister shook her head and said, "It's not from the eldest sister, I don't know these Mongolians, I heard that it seems to be from a place called Junggar in the north." ”

"Junggar?" The cuffs of the arms are silently recited, but the brain is searching quickly, Ling Yue! Huai Sleeve's heart was excited, and he hurriedly asked, "Is there any letter dedicated to me?" ”

The second sister nodded: "There is a letter to you." With that, he took a few envelopes from the low cabinet behind him, looked at them, and took out one of the letters with a red wax seal and handed it to his sleeve.

Huai Sleeve hurriedly took the letter, immediately opened the wax seal, took out the letter inside, and read it carefully.

Quickly scanning the letter with his sleeves, Dai's eyebrows became tighter and tighter, turning through the past page by page, with a solemn expression, and a soft sigh from time to time.

Djukhtana had planned to continue reading the Bible, but when she saw her like this, she couldn't help but ask, "Who wrote from who?" Provoked you to sigh so long. ”

After reading a few pages of letterhead, he carefully folded the letter back to its original state and put it back in the envelope, his eyes flashed with pity and helplessness, and he relieved himself and said to the second sister: "It's my childhood playmate, you probably remember this person." ”

"Who is it?" Hearing her say this, Zhu Hetana was even more curious.

"Lingyue of Yunrong Palace." Huai Sleeve said softly.

Zhu Hetana frowned and thought for a while, and asked, "Is it a girl born to the prince's concubine?" The one that's half a year older than you? ”

Waisleeve nodded.

Zhu Hetana smiled: "I remember her, when she was a child, she was dark, and Chen'er always liked to make fun of her, but that child looked quite smart, but he didn't like to talk very much, and he was very thoughtful when he was young." Djukhtana reminisced about the past.

Huai sleeve said: "Ling Yue is beautiful now, and it is also one of the best in our northern Xinjiang!" ”

Zhu Hetana nodded with a smile and said: "My grandmother often said that the eighteen changes in the female college seem to be really good. At this point, the subject turned to ask, "How?" She's gone to Jungar now? ”

"It's the Empress Dowager's decree that she is going to be a concubine for Geldan." Huai Sleeve heard the second sister ask this, and replied gloomily.

"It turned out that she went, why didn't I move after I said this?" Jukhtana muttered.

"Second sister, do you know about this?" Huai Sleeve was a little surprised.

Zhu Hetana put the beads back on the table, nodded and said, "Last year, I heard from your brother-in-law that Geldan practiced the strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and often harassed other Mongolian tribes. The distant tribes sent gold and silver to cattle and sheep, and the nearby tribes often raised troops to invade, and have been expanding their snobbery ambitions, the emperor and Lafayette discussed wanting to ease the relationship with relatives, and began to say that they would choose one of the Gege in the capital to marry. ”

Huai Sleeve hurriedly asked, "Then why did you point Ling Yue away later?" ”

Zhu Hetana said: "At that time, all the princes and ministers in the capital who had daughters were in a hurry to spend money on the relationship, who wants their children to suffer that sin?" Later, there was no movement in this matter, and I thought it was over, but I sent her there. ”

Huai Sleeve listened to the reason for the second sister's words, and the lower lip of Bei Ya was white, and his face was extremely ugly.

Zhu Hetana knew that she was good friends with Ling Yue, and she was unhappy for Ling Yue in her heart, so she persuaded her: "This is also the creation of each person, is the child doing now?" ”

Huai Sleeve sighed and shook his head: "She was just a concubine of Geldan when she married, and she was the same as a plaything, and she didn't even have a share in the fight, but she was just left to fiddle." ”

Zhu Hetana sighed: "The Mongol tribes on the steppe have not been resettled, arrogant and rude, and she must have suffered a lot. If the princess of the royal family marries in the past, she may still have some status. She was born as a concubine, and her original status was humble, let alone when she got there. ”

Zhu Hetana believes in Buddhism and has a compassionate heart, and when she hears about such things, she feels uncomfortable.

Huai Sleeve turned to smile again, and said, "However, Ling Yue's letter said that she was pregnant. It's been more than two months. ”

"Really? It's a happy event. Djukhtana silently recited the Buddha's name.

Ling Yue said that now all her thoughts are on the child in her womb, and with this child, she will have something to look forward to......

After dinner, the two sisters talked until they were about to rest. He returned to his embroidery room with his sleeves in his arms. Xueyan and Su'er had already made the bed, and when they saw her coming back, they ordered the little girl to fetch water and wait for Huai Sleeve to finish washing, but Huai Sleeve asked Su Er to make new tea, and sent the maids away.

The night breeze enters through the tulle of the window lattice, and there are occasional wind-blown leaves outside the window, which fall on the window lattice and make a rustling sound, and the autumn cicadas chirp one after another, as if they are screaming farther and farther, as if they have been carried away by time.

Standing in front of the bookcase with his sleeves in his arms, his fingers slid over one book after another, and when he reached "Lisao", he paused to gently pull out the book, turned to the page where the previous letter was held, put the current letter in it, and put the book back in its place.

Caressing her waist, Ling Yue gave her the purse embroidered with golden flame meadowsweet, and in her ears, the song "One Meeting" that Ling Yue said seemed to be what happened yesterday.

Now, Ling Yue is already in the distant Ulan Mutong and is pregnant with a baby. Ling Yue said that she was going to be an aunt! Thinking of this, there were tears in his eyes and a smile on his lips.