It's almost the New Year, it's snowing heavily every day, there are empresses and concubines in the palace preparing for the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Qingcheng fell empty, and Erqi slowly pondered the Yikun Palace small banquet. A few cooks and grandmothers in the kitchen were fortunate enough to talk back to their masters a few years ago, and they were clever and quick-witted, and tried their best to please them. The vegetable chopping grandmother wearing a gray forged palace robe said: "On a snowy day, you should eat a hot pot, and then serve some mutton, beef and cabbage vermicelli, and the master can eat whatever he wants, casual and warm." ”

Er Qi said: "Of course, a hot pot is indispensable, but refreshing cold dishes, greasy lettuce and radish, as well as the little master's favorite pastries and crisp cheese must be prepared." Qingcheng nodded, thinking that the people below could not have a holiday during the New Year's Festival, so he said: "Prepare three or four more tables of flowing water seats, hot pots, chickens, ducks, fish and meat, etc., and put them in the ear room of the side hall, and then the palace people and grandmothers everywhere can go to the table to eat." "Every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, almost all the cooks of each palace have to be transferred to the imperial dining room to help, like Yikun Palace is a concubine palace is still well taken care of, if it is like a palace without grace, not to mention that the people below eat cold, by the imperial dining room unified example, even the master can not eat a few bites of hot food, let alone what kind of sitting meal.

Therefore, when the palace people heard Qingcheng's order, they were all overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to thank them.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent Yongzhang and Yongying the new auspicious clothes they wore in the New Year, and Qingcheng took out last year's comparison and found that it was almost twice as large. When the two brothers dispersed from school, they asked them to try them on, but the cuffs were half an inch shorter, Qingcheng smiled, and said: "It's really fast, it's just the size of the measurement, and when the clothes are ready, it's grown taller again." After saying that, he didn't bother to send it back to the Internal Affairs Office to redo it, so he ordered Hai'an to take the needlework cloth and change the cuffs himself.

The emperor has sealed the jade seal and no longer deals with political affairs. When I came back from the sacrifice at the Temple of Heaven, I first went to the Empress Dowager's palace to ask for peace, and then went to Changchun Palace to visit Yongcong, and then went to Yikun Palace to rest. When he reached the bottom of the corridor, Qingcheng had already smiled out of the thick curtain and smiled at him. The emperor grabbed her hand and walked into the house, saying, "It's cold outside, don't go out if you have nothing to do, be careful to scratch your face." ”

Qingcheng said: "It's okay, this year, the butter paid by the Procurement Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is particularly good, it is blown by the wind, and I apply a thick layer to my face at night, and I will be fine the next day." ”

The heating in the house was pressing, and the emperor felt hot after standing for a while, so he took off his cotton robe and changed into a cotton jacket embroidered with dragon pattern. The emperor sat cross-legged on the kang, waved his hand to endorse the little eunuch, picked up the book that he loved to read, and flipped it over casually. He said: "I want to go to the east to have a look, on the one hand, to pay homage to my ancestors and contact the Mongolian tribes, and on the other hand, to observe the suffering of the civilian soldiers. ”

Qingcheng was stunned, stopped the needlework in his hand, looked up and said, "Didn't you say before that you would take me out of the palace to live for a few months after the New Year?" I told Yongzhang and Yongying that I have been looking forward to it. ”

The emperor closed the book and said, "State affairs are important. After a pause, he smiled again and said slyly: "At that time, there will be no difference between you and leaving the palace with Hu." I promise you that you can bring as many things as you want, and you can bring as many people as you want, so that Yongzhang, Yongying and Jiao'er will follow, so that they can see the good mountains and rivers of our Daqing. "It says it's a state affair, but in fact, it's a big gang of people going out to play, and I don't know how much silver and two people will cost.

Qingcheng's mouth pursed, still unhappy. The saint went out on patrol, there were many people, and the emperor would never take her alone. He rules the world with filial piety, and he must serve the Queen Mother. There is also the queen, who is the mother of the Qing Dynasty, and in front of outsiders, the emperor does not dare to treat her badly. Let's talk about concubines, concubines, etc., if you want to serve the queen mother, you naturally have to follow. That's not all, maybe you have to bring the Mongolian princess and other concubines, they are all the daughters of princes and ministers, the emperor wants to win the hearts of the people, how can he treat them poorly in front of people.

The little Jiujiu idea in her heart, the emperor knew it.

The Emperor smiled and said, "Relax, when the time comes, I will arrange a separate boat for you, the closest to my imperial ship, and when you want to see me, shout out the window, and I will pass." "It's not a big deal to let her use a boat alone, if you say that you are closest to the royal ship, shouting and he will come, but it is to tease her. Qingcheng glanced at him obliquely, and sighed: "Forget it, you can go by yourself, the boat is tired, and I don't like to take a boat, so it is better to stay in the palace." ”

As soon as she heard that she couldn't go, the emperor hurriedly said, "That's not good." ”

Qingcheng said: "What's not to do?" You have no shortage of men to serve. The emperor smiled shyly: "If you are not by my side, I will be uncomfortable all over, and it will be half a year for you to go, are you willing to do it?" Qingcheng looked indifferent and said, "I take care of Jiao'er every day to eat, drink and Lazar, and I pass quickly day by day." Not to mention half a year, a year or two years have passed in a blink of an eye. Now when I think of Huai Yongzhang, it seems like the next day. He smiled again: "Just remember to write to me." ”

The emperor's fingers tapped the ebony kang table one by one, sulking.

Er Qi brought tea into the house, and saw that the two were silent, the atmosphere was not right, and he didn't dare to stay longer, so he hurriedly retreated after serving tea. Qingcheng threw the needle and thread back into the basket, turned to sit beside the emperor, and said, "I'm joking, don't take it seriously." He tugged at his cuffs again and said, "When I have a late snack, I will tell Yongzhang Yongying to see what they want to bring, and then make a roster for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, let's prepare first, and when we start driving next year, we won't panic." ”

The emperor looked at her for a while, then pinched her cheek hard, and said, "I really don't know where Xiao Chang ran away when he could only say "concubines don't dare", but now he is bold and reckless, and he dares to make me angry." Qingcheng knew that he was angry, and he was tired of him, and said with a smile: "Then do you like Xiao Changzai, who "concubines don't dare", or do you like the pure concubine Niangniang who is "bold?" ”

The two of them were angry for a while, laughing for a while, and Hai'an was listening outside, only to feel that his throat and eyes were about to vomit out in fright.

The emperor got up and walked to the study, shook his head and said, "Women are so boring. Qingcheng followed behind him and asked, "Boredom is boring, you answer me first." The emperor let her stick to her left and right like a slug, opened the inkstone by himself, spread out the rice paper and wrote the word Dafu, and said: "When I first met you, I thought you were timid and careful, but you behaved generously and decently, were good at drawing, and could also speak poems and embroider purses, and the words were also beautiful." Now the topics you talk to me about every day are nothing more than Yongzhang, Yongying, and Jiao'er, or you are jealous, jealous, jealous, and you are not afraid that I will dislike you. ”

Qingcheng said with a heart: "I am timid and careful because I am afraid of you, but you always tell me not to be afraid of you." Besides, writing, painting, painting, and poetry are what I used to pass the time when I fell out of favor, and I didn't really like it much. Now taking care of Yongzhang Yongjiao'er, I can't be busy, what else is there to be leisure. Besides, I'm jealous, I've eaten it so many times in the past, and I don't see you disliking it. ”

The emperor's mind was on Qingcheng, and he wrote in his hand, but it was really unsatisfactory, so he simply threw away the pen, turned around and sat back on the kang to pretend to sleep. Qingcheng thought he was tired, so he moved away from the small kang table, took a woolen blanket, covered him, and said, "If you are sleepy, just sleep for a while, and when it gets dark, I will wake you up and eat." "When he went out of the palace to worship, he definitely didn't use the dinner, and Qingcheng specially wanted to make the dinner more sumptuous. The Emperor hummed and closed his eyes.

At night, Yongzhang and Yongying came over, greeted the emperor, and the four of them gathered around the hot pot to shake mutton. Yongzhang stood up suddenly and said, "Eniang, I want to drink two glasses of wine with Huang Ama." The emperor Yile secretly praised: "Good boy." "He ate late in Yikun Palace, and he has eaten and drunk no more than ten times in the past ten years. Qingcheng always said that he ate too much outside, but he was not allowed to eat in Yikun Palace.

He wanted to see how she could reject her baby pimple son.

Qingcheng smiled and said, "Yongzhang has grown up, and it is really good to know that he has dinner with Emperor Ama." Then he said to the eunuch who was serving: "Go and warm two pots of osmanthus wine, and then take three Khotanese white jade plum blossom wine glasses." The emperor grimaced and said, "Didn't you say that you are not allowed to drink?" Qingcheng couldn't deny it, and said with a smile: "Yongzhang wants to drink, just drink less." ”

The emperor's chest was really stuffy.

At one time, the eunuch took the silver-footed wine warmer, put the small stove under the porch, and when the wine was warm, he presented it into the house. Yongzhang first toasted the emperor, and then toasted Qingcheng, looking like a little adult, the more Qingcheng looked at it, the more he liked it, and he couldn't help but drink two more cups.

The three of them were drunk and slightly drunk before leaving, Yongzhang and Yongying knelt down, Hai'an waited for Qingcheng and the emperor to wash, changed their bed clothes, and waited for the two to sleep. The emperor took advantage of the wine to go straight to Qingcheng, who squeaked and itched, and giggled while pushing him. She wanted to meet her, but the emperor felt more and more interested, and after a lot of ravaging and biting, he went straight to the point.

He was so ferocious that she almost died.

The Chinese New Year's Eve banquet is similar to previous years, with the former dynasty set up in the Qianqing Palace, the back palace set up in the Yangxin Hall, and the other set up a small banquet in the Shoukang Palace. There are only many green orange children in the palace, she holds Jiao'er in one hand, Yongying in the other, and Yongzhang on her side, toasting the queen mother, emperor, and queen together. Concubine Jia and Concubine Yu are not bad, with the fourth elder brother and the fifth elder brother as companions, and the concubines next to them looked at Qingcheng, they were all jealous and hateful but did not dare to show it blatantly. In addition, the eldest brother also specifically pointed out his two Gege to greet Qingcheng, completely treating her as an adoptive mother. Qingcheng didn't understand anything, according to the queen's reward under the usual sub-rules, rewarded the two Gege of the eldest brother, and rewarded another pair of gold bracelets, which is considered a grace.

Yong Zong's typhoid fever has not been cured, and at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, the empress forcibly carried him to the empress dowager and the emperor to toast in order to show off. As a result, he began to have a high fever on the morning of the first day of the new year, and the emperor announced that the ministers of the entire imperial hospital were waiting in Changchun Palace, and even the sacrificial celebrations for several days in the first month were all canceled, and they stayed in Changchun Palace wholeheartedly.

The eldest brother lived alone in the elder brother's office, and during the draft a year ago, the emperor pointed out that he put two geges in the house to practice his skills, so that he could marry Fujin and inherit the family in two years. The two Geges are inlaid with red flags, one is called the Mongolian clan and the other is called the Miza clan, and the status is not high, but they are also full of people. At first, the eldest brother didn't like to go to the house of the Miza clan, and the Miza clan's mother was a Han girl, so the Miza clan had a very introverted personality and spoke cautiously, not at all like the Manchu girl who was open-minded and had nothing to say.

The eldest brother doesn't like people to say that they hide half and half of it, but he wants him to guess what she thinks, what is it called.

And the Mongolian clan is different, the authentic Manchu lady, who is in a hurry, enthusiastic, and straightforward, is the first woman of the eldest brother. Therefore, the Miza clan and the Mongolian clan moved to the Elder Brother for a long time, and the eldest elder brother didn't even know which way the Miza clan's house was going. One day, the eldest brother went back to his brother's house, and suddenly it was pouring rain, and he was only followed by a eunuch, who was defenseless, did not bring an umbrella, and saw that the rain was getting heavier, so he said to the eldest brother: "Master, Migege's house is close to this, do you want to take shelter from the rain first?" ”

It was purely to avoid the rain that he entered the house of the Miza clan.

It was already dark, the house had not yet lit the lamp, and the Miza clan was late, she was not favored, she was idle, she always ate early and went to bed early. Listening to the girl shouting, "Big Brother is here...", she was still like a dream, holding chopsticks in her hand, her mouth was full of greasy drills out of the curtain, and she hit her head in Big Brother's arms. It was pitch black, and she didn't see it clearly, so she asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Big Brother is even more bored.

What else could be the matter? Change clothes, serve tea, eat snacks, sleep.

It was raining heavily, and he was half drenched, barely staying in the house to change clothes. Miza's face turned white with bluff, and he trembled his lips as he waited for him to clean his hands and face, change his clothes, and serve hot tea. Miza was raised in the deep boudoir, before entering the palace draft, he hadn't even seen a man a few times, and suddenly a big man sat on his kang, changing clothes and washing his face in front of him, and thought about staying in his own room for a while, so he was scared and frightened.

At night, the grandmothers and girls in the Miza family house were secretly happy, the eldest brother finally came to the Gege house, and the days ahead would be better. The eldest brother has a Mongolian clan, and he has more skills in the Miza clan, and he thinks he is not bad. Unexpectedly, she didn't need the Miza clan at all, she was raised as everyone's lady, and she stumbled in front of him, so it didn't work, that couldn't be, she took off her clothes and twisted and tossed for a long time, which made the eldest brother angry.

When it was over, the rain stopped, he put on his brother's robe, didn't say a word, raised his feet and left.

It was ten days and a half months without seeing the eldest brother, and the palace people all said that the Miza clan did not like the eldest brother, and did not have much future, and the Mongolian clan often came over to gossip with her sister and sister, and the words were nothing more than what the eldest brother rewarded her, and what the eldest brother said.

Miza is good, still docile and docile, laughing and laughing, exactly the same as before, the eldest brother does not come, she is still at ease. But the eldest brother always chattered in the face of the Mongolian clan, and he would feel annoyed, and when he was annoyed, he would sit in the house of the Miza clan, and he would feel quiet. Miza's timid is very small, basically what the big brother says is what he says, if the big brother doesn't speak with a straight face, she will be like air, and she won't even breathe.

Gege's house has a total of two rooms, one is an outer hall, with a kang and a desk, and the other is a bedroom, with beds, beds, chairs, cabinets, etc. Usually if the eldest brother writes in the outer hall, the Miza clan will silently embroider purses, socks, and tape in the bedroom, anyway, it is endless needlework. Sometimes the eldest brother is engrossed in writing, and occasionally when he looks up, he finds that there is no one in the room, and there is no sound at all. He called, "Someone." ”

Miza lost his needle and thread, approached lightly, and asked, "What do you command?" ”

He didn't really have anything to say, so he was stunned, threw away the brush, and said, "Tell someone to take it." Miza responded with "yes", and he didn't call it a girl, so he picked it up by himself. She asked, "Do you want to wash your hands?" The eldest brother said: "Don't wash it, I want to rest for a while, wait for two o'clock to wake me up, and go to the Heart Cultivation Hall to reply." Miza removed the small table on the kang, waited for the eldest brother to lie down with his clothes wide, took the futon to cover it tightly, and sat next to him while sewing socks while staring at the Western clock to watch the hour.

She sat silently for most of the hour, and when she arrived at the point, she called the eldest brother to get up.

Before going to bed, the eldest brother saw that her socks had not yet been embroidered, and when he woke up, both of them had been embroidered with silver thread dragon patterns, apparently made for him. He asked, "You've been sitting here and watching?" The Miza clan waited for the eldest brother to get dressed, and said, "Anyway, I don't have anything to do." He put on the new socks for the eldest brother, which just fitted, and he couldn't help but smile.

When you laugh, it's a bit of a gesture.

She just half knelt on the pedal to put him on, and when she got up, her neck was sore and her shoulders hurt, and she couldn't hold back for a while, so she sighed "hey". Feeling disrespectful again, he hurriedly said obediently: "The slave is rude." The eldest brother couldn't help but reach out and pinch her neck twice, and asked, "Is it painful here?" Miza blushed and said, "It'll be fine after a while, you don't have to worry about it." ”

It's really more than half a point to say, and half a point of grace is not invited.

Gradually, the eldest brother also loved to come to the Miza family's house.

Seeing that they had fallen out of favor, the Mongols resorted to two schemes to frame the Miza clan. On the other hand, she sent two boxes of pastries to Miza, and she sprinkled croton powder into the pastries, which made Miza have diarrhea for two or three days, and could not sleep. Once I invited the Miza clan to visit the garden, and pushed the Miza clan on the bluestone road, so that she fell and crutches, and she couldn't walk on the kang for half a month.

The eldest brother is like a mirror in his heart, but after all, he is partial to the Mongolian clan in his heart, and if the Miza clan really wants to sue, he may not be able to help the Mongolian clan speak. But the Miza clan didn't say anything, nor did they complain, but made the eldest brother feel pity.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the two Geges were not eligible to enter the Cultivation Heart Hall for dinner. The eldest brother ate and was a little half drunk. He was originally going to go to the Mongolian clan's house, but he was afraid that the Mongolian clan would be noisy and make him have a headache, so he walked into the Miza clan's house with a turn. Miza didn't expect that Big Brother would enter her house on Chinese New Year's Eve, and in the middle of the night, she was still eating food, and when she saw Big Brother, she was busy cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks. The eldest brother looked at the table, frowned, and said, "Why are you only eating now?" ”

Miza said lightly: "The cooks of the elder brother have all been transferred to the imperial dining room to help, and only then will the cases be sent." ”

There was no trace of grievance on her face, and she wrung hot water to wash the eldest brother's face and change his bedclothes. Before the two of them could rest, someone from the other end of the Mongolian clan spoke, saying, "Master, Gege is not good, my stomach hurts badly, you can go and take a look." "On Chinese New Year's Eve, it was difficult to call the imperial doctor with great fanfare, and the eldest brother didn't say anything, put on a snow coat and a snow crown, and went to the Mongolian clan's house.

But when the tent was opened, the Mongolian family knelt on the couch in a tulle semi-sheer bedrobe and smiled.

The Mongolian clan's body was ecstatic, and the eldest brother couldn't be angry.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year the next day, the eldest brother asked the Mongolian clan to go to Yikun Palace to ask the pure concubine Niangniang, she thought that she only let herself go, it can be seen that the eldest brother still likes herself, so she happily dressed up carefully, and was about to sit in a sedan chair, only to see two sedan chairs parked outside, and the Miza clan has been waiting for her for a long time. The Mongolian clan was angry in his heart, but he smiled happily on his face, and said, "Let my sister wait for a long time." Miza lost his temper and smiled: "I just came out, so I didn't wait much." Then he asked, "Are you feeling better?" Mongolia's eyes rolled, and he said sharply: "Actually, I don't have a stomachache, and I know it." ”

He knew that was what he meant by his connivance.

Miza was stunned, and actually smiled: "It's okay if you're okay." The two sat in a sedan chair and went to Yikun Palace together to say goodbye. Needless to say, the rules in the palace of Concubine Chun Niangniang first waited for two quarters of an hour at Yikun Gate, entered the courtyard, and waited under the corridor for another quarter of an hour, and Fang Xuan and the two summoned them. The inside is spacious and magnificent, with gold carvings everywhere, and even the spitting spittoon jars are gold-inlaid jade.

Concubine Chun treated the two equally, and the objects they rewarded were exactly the same.

The first elder brother had dinner in Shoukang Palace, and the queen mother rewarded a bird's nest soup and a shark's fin, he only ate half of it himself, and let the eunuch pack the rest and send it to the Miza family's house, and carefully told the eunuch to heat it in the small kitchen of the elder brother before sending it.

The eunuch scalded a dog's skin and asked, "Do you want to give half to Meng Gege?" The eldest brother glared at him and said, "Do you still want you to teach you?" Do you want Mongege to serve you? The eunuch was so frightened that he ran away. Last night, the eldest brother saw that the Miza clan was eating cold dishes and cold rice, and thought that she and the Mongolian clan were both qualified, and the treatment should be the same. But the Mongolian clan is not the master of bullying, and she doesn't talk to him every day when she wants her to eat cold dishes and cold rice.

In this way, it is obvious that the minions favor one over the other, but the Miza clan endures not to say anything.

I really can't help her.

After a while, the eunuch replied and said, "Migege ate bird's nest soup, and soaked gruel with shark fin to drink, saying that it tasted very good, thank you for rewarding." The eldest brother smiled, as if he had lost a heart, and Fang and Yongzhang were messing around.

The first month is very busy, it is a banquet, and it is a sacrifice, and the homework cannot be left behind, when there is nothing to do, the eldest brother stays alone in the study to memorize his homework. It wasn't until after the Lantern Festival that he had time to see the Miza clan. Miza seems to have grown a little taller, and seems to have grown a little thinner, and the little breasts... The room is not much bigger than Xiaolongbao, and it is densely grasped with one hand. I can't help but sigh to myself: With such a body and such a temperament, how can she survive when he has Fujin and the woman next to him in the future.

On a snowy night, he was sleeping deeply, and was suddenly woken up by the Miza clan, only to see her face full of panic, even her lips and teeth were trembling, and she said in a deep voice: "Master, there is a word in the palace that the seventh elder brother is gone." ”