On the sixth day of the first month of the ninth year of Yong'an, after the spirit rhino returned from the Yongshou Palace, heavy snow began to fall in the sky.

Looking at the world covered in silver outside the palace, Lingxi smiled and said to the lotus leaf, "You went and instructed the palace people, don't sweep the snow in the courtyard first, and I will take the five princesses and the five princes to build a snowman together." ”

Lotus Ye smiled and nodded, turned around and went out.

Qiaozhu ran in from outside, rubbed his hands back and forth to keep warm, and smiled at Lingxi, "Niangniang, this is the biggest snow in winter." Looking at the snow, the slave maid remembered the ice slag made by the mother in the summer, and poured the juice on it, which quenched and quenched her thirst. ”

"You're obviously gluttonous." Lingxi smiled, "You go and collect the snow outside, and pour the juice on it is better than ice slag." ”

"Don't." Qiaozhu squatted in front of the charcoal basin and added two pieces of silver silk charcoal to the charcoal basin, "Eating snow will grow ice tumors in your stomach." ”

Lingxi burst out laughing, "That snow melted in your mouth, why did you grow ice lumps in your stomach?" ”

"That's what the old people say." Qiaozhu smiled and said, "Besides, the snow is not clean." Niangniang, the slave maid has ordered the little palace maid to freeze the clean ice. ”

Lingxi nodded, reaching out and taking the blanket over his lap aside. Looking up at the window with a smile, she saw that the fifth princess was running from the west side hall, leaving a line of small footprints in the snow.

Cailan, the personal palace maid of the fifth princess, followed closely behind the fifth princess with a cloak, her face full of anxiety.

Lingxi didn't look back and said to Qiaozhu, "Qiaozhu, the fifth princess is here, you go and get her a small hand stove to warm her hands." ”

Qiaozhu stood up and answered, turned around and went out.

Suddenly, the fifth princess ran in from outside, panting. didn't salute, climbed up the low kang with both hands and feet, knelt in front of the lingxi and looked straight at the lingxi.

Seeing a trace of fear in the eyes of the fifth princess, Lingxi asked suspiciously, "Mu'er, what happened?" Why are you running in such a hurry? ”

The fifth princess stretched out her cold little hand and put it on Lingxi's face, until she felt the temperature coming from her palm, and then she bent her eyes and smiled, "It's nothing, Mu'er has a nightmare." ”

Lingxi held the cold little hand of the fifth princess in his big hand and said with a smile, "Mu'er, dreams are all fake, and they can't be taken seriously. ”

The fifth princess nodded, climbed into Lingxi's arms, grabbed the placket of Lingxi's chest with both hands, and said, "Mother, Mu'er still wants to sleep, you sleep with Mu'er." ”

Lingxi's slender and white right hand touched the tip of the fifth princess's nose, and said with a soft smile, "Mu'er sleep, my mother will hold it, and my mother will call Mu'er to get up and eat when we have dinner." ”

The fifth princess nodded, rubbed in Lingxi's arms like a cat, and closed her eyes. As if she was not at ease, the fifth princess opened her eyes again and said, "Mother, you just hold Mu'er, don't go anywhere." ”

Lingxi nodded and affirmed, "Mother just hugged Mu'er and didn't go anywhere." ”

Qiaozhu came back with the hand stove, and looked at the fifth princess lying in Lingxi's arms with a surprised expression, "Niangniang......"

Lingxi raised his fingers and 'shh

The fifth princess trembled and opened her eyes, and her little hand holding Lingxi's clothes trembled slightly, "Mother, is Qiaozhu going to tell you to go out?" ”

"No, Qiaozhu warmed a hand stove for Mu'er, does Mu'er want it?" Lingxi didn't understand why the fifth princess was so uneasy, reached out to stroke the fifth princess's bun, and comforted her softly, "Mu'er sleeps in peace, and my mother promises that my mother will not go anywhere." ”

The fifth princess nodded and closed her eyes again.

Qiaozhu didn't dare to make a little movement, and even the lotus leaf who came in later also accepted his voice after seeing Lingxi's gesture.

After about two teas, the fifth princess's breathing became balanced.

After asking Qiaozhu to carry the five princesses to the dormitory, Lingxi ordered the lotus leaf to call Cailan, who was following the five princesses.

Cailan was originally a third-class palace maid who boiled water in the Lingyan Palace, but she was arranged by the side of the fifth princess because of her cleverness, replacing Xia Tong, who was doing things.

Rubbing his slightly numb legs, Lingxi raised his eyes and asked Cailan, "What's wrong with the fifth princess?" ”

Cailan blessed Lingxi, and replied smartly, "If you go back to Niangniang, the fifth princess will say that she is sleepy after lunch. was sleeping well in the dormitory, but the fifth princess suddenly sat up and asked the slave maid what time it was. The slave and maid returned, and the fifth princess asked the slave and maid where you were. The slave said that as soon as you came back from the Yongshou Palace, the fifth princess came running......"

"Is there anything wrong with the fifth princess these days?" Lingxi asked again.

Cailan shook her head and replied, "The fifth princess is very well-behaved, and she will sit there and practice calligraphy by herself after you return in the morning." After lunch, I will take a nap, and when I wake up, I will go to the east hall to play with the five princes. After dinner, play by yourself for a while, and go to bed at the end of the day. ”

Lingxi nodded, letting Cailan go down.

Qiaozhu praised on the side, "The fifth princess is really a rare good character, I heard that the fourth princess is very naughty, and she is willing to go to sleep until late every day." ”

Lingxi smiled and didn't say anything, but in her heart, she felt more and more that the personality of the fifth princess was not like a child. What five-year-old child can have such a regular schedule, and he is not arrogant or impatient, and he is very calm.

Just as he was looking down and thinking, Xiao Yingzi led Pan'er in. Pan'er looked at Lingxi Yifu and said with a smile, "Yingniang Niangniang Wan'an, my mother-in-law has newly obtained two cans of high-quality deer placenta cream, and asked the slave maid to bring one to Niangniang." When my mother was in the morning, she thought of sending it herself, but she didn't expect the snow to fall in the afternoon. ”

The deer fetus nourishes qi and nourishes blood, regulates menstruation and dissipates cold, and is a good medicine for regulating uterine cold.

Lingxi asked Qiaozhu to take the deer fetus in Pan'er's hand, and said with a smile, "She is too, she still thinks about me here with her body." ”

"My mother is bored in the palace, and she always wants to find an excuse to go around." Qi'er grinned and said, "It just so happens that the snow is big, and the slave maid sent the deer placenta paste to the Lingyan Palace, which also saves her from always worrying about it in her heart." ”

"You girl, you're not afraid of your ears being pinched by concubines."

Qi'er raised her hand and touched her ears, and smiled at Lingxi's blessed body, "That slave and maid ask for a favor." When the affairs in the Niangniang Palace are free, I will sit in the Ruyi Palace, and I will save my mother from having nothing to do with the ears of the slaves. ”

Qi'er's cheerful tone made Lotus Ye and Qiaozhu, who were standing on the side, laugh.

Lingxi glanced at the sky outside and said with a smile, "Although the snow is heavy, it's not too late...... Lingxi smiled and said, "You go back, wait for tomorrow when the snow stops the palace and go to the Ruyi Hall to sit." ”

Qi'er thanked her and said, "The slave and maid Xie Ying's mother is compassionate, and the slave and maid retire." ”

After Yu'er left, Lingxi turned back to Lotus Ye and said, "If I hadn't promised the fifth princess not to go out, I really wanted to sit with Concubine Yu for a while." On Chinese New Year's Eve in the Bohol Hall, I saw that she didn't seem to be in a good mood. ”

"Niangniang, Concubine Yu Niangniang may be anxious during pregnancy. A few days ago, I saw Yizhi, and I also said that Concubine Yu had been restless lately. Lotus replied.

Lingxi nodded and sighed, "Concubine Yu's first child slipped when she was more than five months old, and now she is sure that she is uneasy. ”

As he was talking, Xiao Dezi ran in from outside with a panicked look, and did not salute, Xiao Dezi said bluntly, "Niangniang, Xiao Jingzi just met the slave and said that the emperor was about to come to the Lingyan Palace." ”

Qiaozhu Liu's eyebrows frowned slightly, and said, "The emperor will come when he comes up, what are you panicking about?" ”

"Oops." Xiao Dezi took a step forward in front of Lingxi and said, "Xiao Jingzi and the slave said that the emperor came up because of a colored forged brocade papa. ”

Lingxi was shocked in her heart, and suddenly remembered that on the night An Xiaowan came back from Zichen Palace, she took her own handkerchief to wipe her tears. And when she retired, she didn't hold a handkerchief in her hand.

Tightening his grip on the colored forging brocade handkerchief of the same color, Lingxi asked Xiao Dezi with a pale face, "Where did the emperor go at this time?" ”

"Xiao Jingzi and the slave said that the emperor had not yet left the Taihe Palace, and the slave estimated that he would enter the Yongle Palace in another two quarters of an hour."

Lingxi raised his head and said to Qiaozhu, "You can't hide it anymore, you go and take Concubine Wan back to the Frost Pavilion." ”

Qiao Zhufu left in a hurry.

"Lotus leaf, you see if my makeup is neat." Lingxi stood up from the low kang and turned around to let the lotus leaf see.

Lotus Ye nodded after looking at it and said, "Niangniang, neat." ”

Lingxi hummed, sat down and said to Xiao Dezi, "You go out and guard, as if you don't know anything." ”

Just when Lingxi was anxiously waiting for Emperor Yong'an to arrive, the five princesses came out of the dormitory and coquettishly wanted to go out to play in the snow.

An hour ago, Lingxi really wanted to take the five princesses and the five princes to build a snowman together. can know that Emperor Yong'an is about to come to Xingshi to ask for guilt, where is she still in that mood.

The strange thing is that the fifth princess, who has always been regarded by Lingxi as a little adult, not like a five-year-old child, showed her little princess's temper, and she had to let Lingxi play with her.

Under the soft grinding and hard bubbles, the anger in Lingxi's heart rose sharply. But looking at the five princesses' eyes full of expectation and pitiful, the anger that Lingxi was holding back in her heart couldn't come out.

In desperation, she sighed and said to the lotus leaf, "Let's go, take the fifth princess out to build a snowman." ”

When Emperor Yong'an stepped into the courtyard of the Lingyan Palace, what he saw was the scene of Lingxi taking the five princesses and the five princes to play happily.

Under the heavy snow, Lingxi squatted on the snow, with a bright smile on his face, and held a snowball high in his right hand to lead the five princesses and the five princes to grab it.

Suddenly, the five princesses and the five princes teamed up to throw the spirit rhino to the ground, and the snowball fell onto the snowball and shattered, and the mother and son laughed.

Seeing this, Gonggong Feng coughed lightly, took a step forward, and sang loudly, "The emperor has arrived!" ”

Lingxi's heart sank in the snow, and the smile on his face froze at the corner of his mouth.

Pulling up the five princesses and the five princes, Lingxi walked in front of Emperor Yong'an, blessed, and said, "The concubine lost her honor, and asked the emperor to surrender." ”

The fifth princess raised her eyes and glanced at Emperor Yong'an, and said timidly, "Father, Mu'er is not sensible, and she is not pestering her mother to come out to play in the snow." ”

The fifth prince greeted him in a regular manner, "Yi'er asks for peace to my father!" ”

Looking at the happy mother and son in front of him, the anger in Emperor Yong'an's heart has been half gone.

He said to the lotus leaves and others who were standing behind Lingxi, "It's cold, take the five princesses and the five princes back." He pointed at the spirit rhino and said, "Come in with me, I have something to ask you!" ”