A few days later, the snow stopped. The golden light is shining, the imperial city stands under the blue sky, the eagle soars, and the white clouds are like fluffy cotton bones, rising from behind the eaves and walls. The air was cold to the bone, and when the wind blew, it slashed like a knife in the face. Cheng Guiren fed the parrot under the corridor, and when he saw Lu Guiren coming from a distance, he busily cleaned his hands, greeted the entrance of the hospital, and said with a smile: "It's still cold, Sister Lu is dressed so thinly, don't catch a cold." ”

The two saluted each other, and Lu Guidao: "I was originally wrapped in a cloak, but I walked all the way, and I felt hot again, so I took it off." He smiled again: "The noble Shun is going out of the palace today, and you should send it off according to the ceremony, do you want to go with you?" Cheng Guiren was slightly surprised, and said, "Didn't you say that you will leave the palace after the New Year?" How..."Lu Guidao: "It's the will of the Queen Mother, saying that the queen is seriously ill, and the matter of praying for blessings cannot be delayed." ”

The honest nobleman laughed, stopped answering, and walked into the house with the landed nobleman.

The palace maid served tea, and the two sat opposite each other on the kang, Lu Guiren was so cold that he shivered, and said, "Why do I think it's colder inside the house than outside?" Cheng Guiren showed an embarrassed look and said: "You also know that those people in the Internal Affairs Office, it is common to deduct shares, sister, you are an old person in the palace, and you entered the palace from the hidden mansion, so naturally you are not as good as the concubines who entered the palace from the draft." Lu Guiren looked carefully, and sure enough, there was only a pot of silver charcoal burning in the house, although there was a fire dragon, but the heat was too little to resist.

Lu Guiren thought about his own favor, cut off his concubine and other things, and was also lonely, and said with pity: "You don't have to be discouraged, the days are still long, there will always be a day to turn over." "When you speak to her, you speak to yourself. Cheng Guiren smiled gloomily and said, "With the one from Yikun Palace, it's not easy to talk about." I heard that when spring is opened, the household department will play the roster of school-age women in the Eight Banners, and when the time comes, how can the emperor remember us. While talking, a palace maid entered the house, curtched her knees and said, "Master, Master Yu sent someone to ask, Master Shun is about to leave the palace, do you want to send it off?" ”

Cheng Guiren smiled coldly and said, "Say that I am uncomfortable, and I am more comfortable when I am crooked on the bed." The palace people knew what it meant, so they went out to spread the word. Lu Guiren's eyes rolled, and he pretended to say: "It's also good to want to come to Yu Concubine, in the end, the Queen Mother ordered the nobles to go out of the palace to pray for blessings, and they have to be thoughtful in terms of face." Cheng Guiren didn't know that Lu Guiren and Yu Concubine had a festival, and there was an inexplicable anger in his heart, and said: "She thought I was a fool, that day provoked me to go to the flowers and plants of the nobles, and then I went to the nobles to curry favor, that idea, don't think I don't know." Only the pure master speaks for me, but he is sincere, and he doesn't want me to do anything. ”

Lu Guidao: "Concubine Yu is very scheming, if there is anything in the future, you discuss it with me, don't let her take advantage of it." Cheng Guiren smiled gently, patted Lu Guiren's hand, and said, "Thank you, Sister Lu, let's support each other in the future." Lu Guiren held her hand back, nodded and said, "That's right." ”

Concubine Yu leaned on the kang, listened to Zhiyan's reply, and said: "Master Cheng said that his body is not very refreshing, and the slave looks like a lie, and he vaguely speaks in Lu Guiren." Concubine Yu smiled faintly and said: "The two of them, without grace and no children, are just sorry for them, I'm afraid there are endless words." After a while, he said angrily: "In the end, I looked away, I wanted to rely on Shun Guiren to show her face in front of the Queen Mother, and please a few things, but I didn't want her to be difficult to protect herself, but I had a dislike with Chenggui." ”

Zhiyan said with relief: "Don't worry, master, if you lose your sincerity, you still have a pure master to rely on." The old love of the hidden mansion is always taken care of by the pure master. Concubine Yu "hummed" twice from her nose and said, "She is pampered by herself, and she treats everyone with love and ignorance." Recently, I went to greet her, but I didn't see her twice out of three, and the shelves were more than the queen and concubine. After a brief pause, he suddenly said fiercely: "I have to open my eyes and take a closer look to see how long she can be favored!" ”

The words are harsh, and it makes Zhiyan creepy for no reason.

Concubine Xian was ordered by the Queen Mother to take Concubine Shun, Concubine Shu, Concubine Yu, Wang Guiren, and Jin Guiren to Xihuamen to send Shun Guiren's sedan chair out of the palace. Walking to the palace street, there happened to be a eunuch who high-fived him quickly, and everyone knew that it was the royal car, so he got off the sedan chair and retreated to the foot of the wall to wait. After a while, there were two rows of eunuch boots in ink clothes and robes, and Concubine Xian hurriedly curtled her knees, she lowered her head, looked around, but found that there were two warm sedan chairs, and her heart chuckled, and she felt uncomfortable.

The curtain was rolled up by the wind, and Qingcheng looked out inadvertently, only to see several women standing solemnly on the side of the palace wall, their robes dancing in the wind, all with low eyebrows and lowered eyes, so that people could not see clearly. Hai An followed the sedan chair and asked, "What does the master command?" Qingcheng said softly, "It's okay." The roller blinds fell in the wind, cutting off everything outside.

Arrive at the Qianqing Gate, it is still the scenery of the old year, the heavenly street is wide and far-reaching, and you can see the majestic Taihe, Zhonghe, and Baohe three halls in the distance under the golden sun, flowing with circles of orange, yellow, purple and blue. On both sides stand the masculine and domineering gilded bronze lions, the lion body is covered with thick snow, the white continues to the gate of the Baohe Palace, the north wind sweeps the ground, and the fine snowflakes are raised in the air, such as spring catkins. The emperor wrapped in an apricot gold silk embroidered dragon pattern cloak, put one hand on her shoulder, and asked, "Is it cold?" ”

Qingcheng snuggled into his arms and said, "It's not cold." And he said, "Let's go and walk in the snow." ”

The emperor shook his head and said, "You have a baby in your belly, how can you walk in the snow?" Measure more in all things. Qingcheng stared at him with his chin held high, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, don't think of me as too fragile, I will step on your footprints, and it will never be fine." The emperor glared at her and said, "Then let you play with the snow behind me?" "Last year she secretly stuffed a few clumps of snow into his neck, and she was still thinking about it.

Qingcheng pouted and said coyly: "The emperor is so stingy." ”

When the emperor saw that she was lost, he asked, "Do you really want to step on the snow?" Qingcheng Zhenzhen said: "Of course, in a year, I can come to see the snow with you, only this time." The emperor looked at the end of the blue sky, and everything rose and fell, but it was so vast and silent that people were in awe. He said, "If you wish, I will fulfill you." ”

He took another half step forward, half-squatted down and said, "Come up." ”

Qingcheng was stunned, he was the emperor, no matter how presumptuous she was, she always upheld her sense of proportion. Stepping back almost instinctively, she whispered, "I don't dare." The emperor looked at her and said with a smile: "What? Just now, I was clamoring to step on the snow, so that I don't underestimate you, but now it's only been a while, and I'm scared? Qingcheng said: "You are the Ninety-Five Supreme, I..."

The emperor said: "You have the right to treat me as an ordinary man who walks on the snow behind his wife's back." He actually called himself "I", Qingcheng remembered the days when he went to the Yellow River to cruise, obviously saying that he was pretending to be a girl, but he always called her Madame. The emperor said, "We have lost a child, and I don't want to have a second time!" ”

She slowly approached him, his tall figure, thick shoulders and broad back, strong arms, lying on them warm, comfortable and safe, not afraid of falling at all. Wu Shu came to see him, and hurriedly shook his hand to let the palace people turn their backs, hiding behind the bronze lion, lowering his eyebrows and lowering his eyes, only daring to pay attention with his remaining eyes.

The emperor got up, sighed, and said in fright: "Recently, I have made up my body, and I am much fatter than before, if you can't carry it, let me down." The emperor laughed and said, "I will practice Kubu every day, and even if you grow another twenty pounds, I can carry you." Qingcheng sneered and hammered him on the shoulder, saying, "I don't want to grow twenty pounds!" The emperor said, "What if it's twenty pounds?" Peace of mind, I won't dislike you. Qingcheng wrapped his arms around his neck and said softly: "When the time comes, there will be three or four layers of chin, if you don't dislike it, I will be annoyed first." ”

The snow in the heavenly street was clean and immaculate, and it accumulated for several days, and the emperor decreed that no one was allowed to clean it, and the ministers and people passing by also took a detour. The heavens and the earth fell silent, and the emperor walked forward step by step, his heart was clear, as if all the red dust and hustle and bustle in the world had disappeared, only she was on her back, and there was a warm and fragrant breath in her ears.

Qingcheng said: "In the inn of the Handan Daimyo's Mansion, you promised to teach me to play the piano, do you remember?" ”

The emperor thought for a moment and said, "Remember." Qingcheng snuggled his face into his back and neck, and said, "What you promised counts, I still remember it." The emperor said, "I know." Qingcheng closed his eyes peacefully, the warm winter sun was sprinkled on his body, the tip of his nose was his faint dragon fragrance, he walked smoothly and steadily, stepping in the snow, crunching. The surroundings are quiet, and the cold wind blows through the ears, and it is silent. She thought it would be nice if there was never an end.

Shun nobles left, Qixiang Palace was also idle, and most of the glass houses that cost a lot of money were repaired, and it was not easy to withdraw, and it was not easy to build again, which made Concubine Xian embarrassed. Concubine Shu, Concubine Yu and others went, only Concubine Shun gossiped in the house. She said: "Don't worry about this beforehand, I estimate that after spending so much silver, it is not good to give up halfway." When the emperor is in a good mood, you can just ask casually. ”

Concubine Xian took the heavy beaded gold hairpin on her bun, put it in the brocade forging box, and said: "The good things in the palace are always sent to the Yikun Palace first. ”

Concubine Shun was puzzled and said, "What do you mean..."

Concubine Xian raised her face, let the palace people remove her makeup, and said: "Concubine Chun is pregnant, according to the emperor's will, she wants to pick up another piece of land in Yikun Palace to build two palaces for the future prince and princess to make bedrooms." Since I was waiting for the emperor to speak, why don't I mention it first, and dismantle those pieces of glass and put them in Yikun Palace to embezzle. ”

Concubine Shun said: "Why are you suffering? The pure concubine may not be subject to your courtesy. ”

Concubine Xian said indifferently: "It doesn't matter if she can't stand it, what matters is what the emperor wants." Shun Guiren's affairs have already made him angry, and he must do something to redeem it. The palace people went in and out, and Concubine Shun stood by the side and watched, and suddenly remembered the scene when she first met Concubine Xian. Dressed in a long rouge silk embroidered silk dress, she danced in the plum forest, smiling brightly and movingly at the emperor. The emperor stroked his palm along the beat, as if he couldn't see anything, and she was the only one in his eyes. She has also been favored by thousands of people, and she has also made promises to her, but in the end, she still has to figure him out, calculate him, and seek perfection for his woman.

Sometimes, I really want to tear up this blossom and break free from this cage of wealth.

Day by day, the weather is warmer, and by the time of the year, it has been as warm as the early spring. The queen was gradually able to get up to eat, and the emperor was relieved and went to Changchun Palace more and more frequently. The trivial matters under the year are cumbersome, and the emperor and queen worship are still many, and the queen mother made a decree and ordered the concubine to replace the queen with her. The five concubines jointly assist in the six palaces, and in the end, they are respected by the concubines.

After sealing the jade seal, the emperor no longer paid attention to the government affairs, and the minister of the Military Aircraft Department was also suspended and returned to his home for the New Year. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has prepared a lot of embroidered purses, which contain gold Ruyi, silver Ruyi, jade Ruyi, etc., which are to be rewarded by the emperor at will. In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the emperor ordered people to make a list of all the relics of Yongzhengye in the Qianqing Palace during his lifetime, and rewarded them to the princes and ministers according to their relatives.

In April, the queen recovered from her illness, and the emperor was afraid that she was weak, and the affairs of the harem were still handled by the five concubines. Shanrou led Wei Wan'er into the hall and said, "Master, Wan'er is here." Wan'er knelt on the ground respectfully, bent her knees and said, "Master is blessed." The queen leaned softly on the kang table, opened her eyes, and saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old little lady half-kneeling, wearing a light dark green spring silk palace skirt with small flowers, and two pink and white roses obliquely pressed on her temples, simple and quiet, and there were seven points of pure concubine in her demeanor.

The queen smiled gently and said, "Let's be even." ”

Wan'er replied softly: "Thank you, master." She stood with a slight, slightly pale, without the slightest hint of nervousness. The queen looked at it for a while, and said: "I heard Shanrou say, I have been sick for a while, and you have always served in front of the emperor." Wan'er didn't have any different colors, and said smoothly: "Yes." The more she looked at it, the more pleasing she became, and she had given her maidservants to the emperor with important tasks, but the results were always not satisfactory to her. Looking at Wei Wan'er now, but for no reason, she was a little more sure.

The queen said: "Wu Shulai told me yesterday that you served well in front of the palace, and I want to transfer you to the Heart Cultivation Hall on an errand." He asked interestingly: "Is this your wishful thinking?" Wei Wan'er thought about it for a while, and then knew the meaning of the queen's words, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "The slave doesn't dare, please ask the master to be clear." ”

Shanrou personally moved the sandalwood round stool and placed it on Wan'er's side. The queen smiled lightly: "Whether you dare or not, even if you are in the eyes of the emperor, there is nothing to pursue." Get up and sit down. Wan'er was puzzled, I don't know what the queen meant, it is better to kneel comfortably than to sit down, she fell to the ground and said: "The slave doesn't dare." ”

The queen was very satisfied with her humility and deference, and said, "Kneel if you wish." He added, "I'll just ask you, are you willing to go to the Heart Cultivation Palace?" Wan'er crossed a trace of excitement in her mind, and said more and more humbly: "The slave and maid should listen to the master's assignment, and the master tells the slave and the maid to go, and the slave and the maid will go." The master told the slave and the maid not to go, and the slave and the maid did not go. ”

When the spring wood flowers are deep, the doors and windows are wide open, the breeze contains the warmth of the fragrance, the sunlight is reflected in the house, the queen moves her body, and the fine phoenix hairpin tassels on the temples are in the light, flickering and jumping. The queen said: "I think you also know that most of the people who serve in front of the emperor will be favored by the emperor." She looked at the people with their faces close to the ground underground, and said leisurely: "But if you don't have to rely on it in the palace, even if you are favored for a while, you will often not die well." ”

Wei Wan'er said: "Although the slave and maid are stupid, they are loyal to the master, and no matter where the slave and maid are in the future, only the master and the horse will look forward." It was really a little clear, so the queen couldn't help but straighten up, give a hand, and said with a smile: "Get up quickly, don't kneel and break your knees, and go to the Heart Cultivation Hall with your feet." Shanrou grabbed Wan'er's arm and said, "It's also a grace for the master to let you get up and speak." ”

At this point, Wei Wan'er knew it, and got up to listen to the queen's lecture.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs paid tribute to the spring tea, and Concubine Xian ordered someone to send two cans to Yikun Palace first. Qingcheng became interested, ordered Erqi to make tea in the stove under the begonia flowers, and ordered to teach Mama to bring Yongzhang. Yongzhang is almost two years old, very tall, strong, and speaks with sharp teeth. Listening to his milky voice calling "Eniang", Qingcheng only felt that his heart was going to be intoxicated, and it was as soft as a withered petal.

Qingcheng squatted, took Yongzhang's fleshy little hand, and said, "Did you miss Eniang last night?" Yongzhang said seriously: "I think about it." Qingcheng's eyebrows and eyes smiled into a crescent moon, and said, "How much do you want to?" Yongzhang wrapped his arms around Qingcheng's neck, tilted his head and said, "Much, many thoughts." Qingcheng became more and more happy when he heard this, kissed him on the face several times, and then walked to the pavilion with him in his arms, pointed to dozens of plates of dim sum on the stone table and asked, "What do Yongzhang want to eat?" ”

Yongzhang muttered, "Osmanthus crisp cheese." Qingcheng wanted to call Hai'an to bring it, and the side taught the grandmother and said: "Master Qiqi, when I got up in the morning, the third elder brother had already eaten a bowl and a half of crisp cheese, which was made of milk, and he was angry, so he couldn't eat too much." Yongzhang had already leaned over and grabbed the cheese bowl on the table, and Qingcheng couldn't bear to brush his mind, so he said, "It's okay." So he took him and sat down on a stool and fed him himself.

In the depths of the shade of the tree, a bright yellow figure suddenly turned out, and said: "You can't always get used to him, there is a nosebleed in front of him, and the imperial doctor said that the fire is too strong, and you should eat less meat milk and more melons, fruits and vegetables." Everyone hurriedly got up and saluted, and Yongzhang was scared when he saw the emperor, and reflexively drilled into Qingcheng's arms. Qingcheng said aside, and said with a smile: "It's still far away at noon, why did you go down to court?" ”

The emperor said, "There is little to do today. He waved his hand at Yongzhang again, and said with a straight face: "You come here." Yongzhang flinched, walked up to the emperor, and said, "Emperor Ama Wanfu." ”

Seeing that Yongzhang was frightened, Qingcheng hurriedly took his little hand and said, "Except for Eniang, the person who loves you the most in the world is Huang Ama." The emperor originally wanted to reprimand him, but when he heard Qingcheng say this, it was difficult to speak, so he said: "Don't always get used to him, he can eat whatever he wants, and he always feels that he doesn't eat well enough, so he has to make up for it if he has nothing to do." When I was a child, the first emperor said that I would eat whatever I wanted, and I was not strong and strong. ”

Qingcheng glanced at him and said, "He's still young, and if you want to lecture him, you have to wait until he is over five years old." ”

The emperor wanted to say: it will be too late after the age of five. But he said: "The cheese must be rationed, and I must also order the people in the imperial dining room to take a good look at it, and it can't always be based on his temperament." He waved his hand and asked Mama to step forward, and said, "The weather is not cold, how can you dress him so much, three layers inside and three layers outside, and he has to cover his prickly heat if he has nothing to do." Go, take off two shirts and come back again, when I was a child, I could withstand the cold and grow up. ”

The grandmothers turned pale with fright, answered "yes", and returned to the moral hall with Yongzhang in their arms.

The emperor put on a different face and said with a smile: "I have brought you something good." He glanced at Wu Shulai, who took the black lacquer box of rosewood from the honor guard behind him and carefully rested it on the stone table. There are too many good things he rewards, and he eats and plays every few days, and keeps sending them to Yikun Palace. Sometimes the Ministry of Internal Affairs will keep records, and sometimes no one knows about it at all, and the emperor gave it to Qingcheng privately.

Qingcheng was surprised and asked, "What is it?" ”

The emperor smiled proudly, took the small key engraved in copper, twisted it slightly, lifted the wooden cover, and said: "Yesterday, the people outside paid tribute to the thousand-year-old guqin, which is called the "Jiuxiao Huanpei" qin. "Qingcheng took a look, it is made of sycamore as the face, fir as the base, the whole body is painted with purple lacquer, there are thirteen luodian emblems, and the abdomen is engraved with fine snake patterns. She dropped her fingertips on the piano and swiped it gently, her voice warm and loose, pleasant to the ear. Look at the foot of the piano again, engraved with twenty-three characters in regular script, said: "The mist is thin in the spring breeze, and the sound of Langlang ring is beautiful." The curtain is new Yanyu, and the old dragon of the sea is singing. Su Shiji. ”

Qingcheng couldn't help but say: "It's an antiquity." ”

The emperor squinted at her and sighed, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be willing to take it out." If Su Dongpo knew that this piano was used by me to teach students, and he would not be angry to death, it would be really a waste. Qingcheng smiled: "If you are angry, you will be angry, anyway, he has been dead for hundreds of years." I straightened the strings again, played it twice, and the posture was still there, but I forgot all about the technique.

Erqi's tea was boiled, and it was filled in the imperial Hetian white jade cup, and he stepped forward and said: "The emperor, master, it's not too late to play after eating tea, and the tea won't taste good when it's cold." The emperor waved his hand and said, "No, I want to play the piano first." And he said, "All of you go down, and talk about anything later, and I will not allow anyone to disturb me." Erqi agreed, and the emperor stood behind the green orange and began to tell the story of the piano. Qingcheng learned it when he was a child, and he was considered to have a foundation, and the emperor knew it by heart with a little dialing.

The emperor got this good piano, but before he could fiddle with it, his heart was already itchy, so he said: "You drink tea slowly, I will try my hands, and learn carefully." Qingcheng smiled: "You are really a competent teacher. "The emperor sits on a stool, without burning incense, and is surrounded by the fragrance of flowers.

Qingcheng stood beside him, and the breeze blew down, blowing down the broken petals of the trees and begonias, and they fell one after another, blowing the two of them all over their heads. The sound of the piano rises in wisps, like seduction, like intoxication, but also amazement, but also joy. The tea was fragrant, and the green orange was held in his hand, but he forgot to drink it. The man in front of him is wearing a bright yellow silk robe, his body seems to be shrouded in the brilliance of heaven and man, his fingertips flow, the rhythm is like a spring water flowing between the pines, clear and crisp, can make people feel refreshed and happy, like no one's land.

After the song was finished, Qingcheng was stunned for a while, and Fang said: "The emperor plays the song so well, what's the name?" ”

The emperor stood up and said with a smile: "When you learn it, I will tell you what the name is." Okay, that's all for now, and I still have to deal with the court. As soon as he moved, the red on his body fluttered down. When he reached the bottom of the stairs, he advised: "That qin is a guqin, even if you have silver, you can't buy it, so you have to take good care of it." Don't lose it, break it. ”

It was rare for him to need such an urgent thing, which made Qingcheng smile and said: "If you don't worry about this, you can just take it back to the Heart Cultivation Palace." The Emperor pinched her cheek and said, "If you hadn't learned the piano, I wouldn't have given it to anyone." ”