After Kangxi finished speaking, he looked back at his sleeves and asked gently, "After accompanying me for one night, you are also sleepy, right?" ”

Huai Sleeve smiled and shook his head: "The slave is not sleepy." ”

Kangxi looked at the eyes of his arms under the starry night becoming more and more clear and crystalline, not like a lie, and then asked, "Do you often go out at night like this?" ”

Hearing this question, Huai Sleeve remembered the reason for coming out tonight, and couldn't help but look gloomy, and said after a moment of silence: "I often copy scriptures for the Queen Mother at night, and occasionally I go out for a walk when my hands are sore." With that, he turned his gaze away, and except for the two of them, he was still lonely and silent.

Kangxi had already taken her fleeting gloomy look into her eyes just now, and was about to speak, at this time, not far away, there was a crowd of people's footsteps, and the sound of skirts squirming, it was the guards and palace maids and eunuchs who were surrounded by dragons, and in a blink of an eye, a team of people had already come closer.

Several eunuchs gently placed the dragon in front of Kangxi and stood with their heads bowed, and the people who followed behind also stopped, and no one dared to make a sound, and they all waited silently.

Kangxi didn't go up, stood in place and looked at his sleeve, and suddenly asked, "Is that butterfly still alive just now?" ”

Huai Sleeve hurriedly stretched out his hand, and seeing that the butterfly was still lying in his palm, he replied with a chuckle: "It's still alive!" ”

Kangxi also smiled, nodded slightly, put his hand into his arms, took out a goose-yellow cicada silk Su embroidered dragon handkerchief, spread it on the other palm of his sleeve, and then carefully caught the butterfly on the soft handkerchief.

"The breath of man is too hot for these little insects, so it will be better, and when the sun comes out and dries the dew on its wings, it will be able to fly." When Kangxi said this, his tone was extremely gentle.

The words fell, turned around and stepped on the dragon bowl, the eunuchs slowly lifted the dragon to their shoulders and wanted to leave, Kangxi condescended, looked at his sleeves and instructed: "It's not too early, I heard that you often accompany the Empress Dowager to chant in the morning, and you can rest for a while when you go back early." ”

"Yes, the slave and maid send the emperor." Bow down with your sleeves in your arms.

"Drive the Qiushui Pavilion ......" Li Dequan raised a long and high-pitched voice, and everyone hugged Kangxi's dragon and rushed away.

When Li Dequan passed by Huai Sleeve, he deliberately looked back at her, and Huai Sleeve received Li Dequan's gaze, bowed down and gave a gentle salute, Li Dequan's shallow smile was meaningful.

When the last eunuch was gone, his sleeves were still standing in place, and the handkerchief in his hand still had the residual warmth of Kangxi's palm.

Just walked into the moon gate of the small courtyard of the bamboo pavilion, there was a white paper on the door faintly in the sleeve, and the sleeve hurriedly stepped forward and took out the paper in the crack of the door to unfold it, and saw the two lines above the familiar Chu Henan script with four lines of poetry:

The oblique sun on the city draws the corner of the decline, and the Shen Garden is not a restored pond.

The spring waves under the sad bridge are green, and they were once shocked.

"Rong Ruo has been here!" Huai Sleeve hurriedly took the paper and looked around, empty, quietly empty, and chased out to the gate of the moon and asked in a lost voice: "Are you here?" ”

"Is the girl looking for me?" Huai Sleeve hurriedly looked back when he heard the sound, but it was Jian Yue, who had already gotten up, and Huai Sleeve's eyes were suddenly covered with a thick sense of loss.

"What's the matter, girl?" Jian Yue saw that Huai Sleeve's face was pale, and the heavy darkness under his eyes was thick at a glance, and at first glance, he knew that he had not slept all night, and saw that Huai Sleeve was holding a handkerchief with one hand, and holding a piece of paper tightly with the other hand, as if he was losing his mind, his eyes were empty.

Huai Sleeve only shook his head, turned and walked back to the room. Putting the handkerchief on the desk, still holding the paper and sinking into the bed, the sleeve was blurry and unable to understand his thoughts at this time.

The note brought by Chang Ning yesterday was obviously Rong Ruo's handwriting, she went as promised, but what she could see was the emperor, who thought that he might be stumped by other things and didn't come, but when he came back, he saw the note he left on the door.

It is clearly his handwriting, and this Lu You's "Shen Yuan" clearly describes the sad feelings of not being able to get together after parting, and it is he who uses this poem to describe the unbearable mood of longing, what is going on? Huai Sleeve for a while, his heart was in turmoil.

After that night, Huai Sleeve originally wanted to ask Chang Ning again, but he never saw Chang Ning's people, and no one brought her news about him, so all Huai Sleeve could do was wait.

Xiaozhuang because of the heavy humidity and heat in summer, leg disease often recurs and it is inconvenient to go out, so it is no longer chanting sutras and worshipping the Buddha every morning, and often instructs Su Mala Aunt, Huai Sleeve and other palace maids not to be depressed in Songhe Zhai, often go out and walk around, saying that it can make the character refreshing, not to be depressed and silent.

And the sleeves have been with Su Malagu for a long time, and his temperament has become peaceful and quiet, coupled with the fact that he is concentrating on sorting out the scriptures on weekdays, his mood is becoming more and more leisurely and clear, and he only boils water and cooks tea under the corridor, feeds the cranes and swims fish in his spare time, and only occasionally picks the clouds to cover the sun's dreary weather and walks alone nearby.

As soon as I fell asleep on this day, the clouds drifted far away outside the window, and I remembered that at noon I carried a tea stove to the front corridor to make tea while teasing the crane, and then Su Mala Aunt came over, and the two chatted for a while and came back together, and the stove fell in the corridor.

As soon as he reached the turn of the corridor, he suddenly saw a cloud of pink flying in the air, falling straight towards the center of the pool.

Seeing that it was close to the water, he didn't have time to think about it, so he stepped on it with a little force under his feet, and jumped out of the eaves, just in front of the pink falling into the lake, he stretched out his arms to take the pink in his arms and found that it was a pretty woman.

The woman was obviously frightened, like a life-saving straw, her hands desperately circled the neck of Huai Sleeve, and her body suddenly had the weight of one more person, and the strength of Huai Sleeve was not enough to support it, and the two of them fell sharply towards the surface of the lake.

"Ahh What to do! It's falling again! The woman in her arms screamed anxiously, and her sleeves couldn't care so much, so she reached out and grabbed her shirt and whirled in the air.

Seeing that there is a protruding pile of water chestnuts in the rockery in the lake, stretching out his legs a little, he originally wanted to bounce back to the shore with strength, but because the angle is not enough to add thrust, it only alleviates the danger of falling into the water, but there is no hope of returning to the shore, and he has to jump on the rockery in the center of the lake.

stood firm, let go of the person in his arms, and saw that the little girl was still with her eyes closed, and her pretty face was pale with fright, but she looked very cute.

"It's okay for the time being, you can open your eyes." Huai Sleeve said softly.

The woman heard Huai Sleeve speak, slowly opened her eyes and looked down, screamed "Wow", and quickly hugged Huai Sleeve's neck.