When the sound of horses' hooves seemed to disappear, the twilight night had shrouded the sky over the palace at some point. The rain and snow were wet, the wind was cold, and in the cold and vast twilight, there was only the hazy moonlight. I don't see half a star.

It was already the time of the lamp, the courtyard was brightly lit, Huizhu took Hongli's hand, hurried back, saw the bright hall full of courtyards, didn't think much about it, directly stomped his feet, and walked up the stone steps of the verandah, until he walked into the main hall house, felt the warm breath rushing to his face, and then comfortably shushed out the white mist, and sighed in a low voice: "I can't stay outside at night, the wind will pour into you, and it is very cold." ”

In the blink of an eye, she greeted loudly again: ", I didn't notice that Xiaojuan and the others gave her a strong look.

The expression on Huizhu's face was too late to close, and he was facing Yinzhen who had just turned his head, and he couldn't imagine that Yinzhen would actually sit in the room, so he stiffened for a moment, and hurriedly lowered his eyes, and squatted down and said, "Please Da'an." Yinzhen seemed to have expected Huizhu to be like this, her sharp eyes were on her, and she said, "Hmm" and said: "Get up, let the servants serve and wash, don't worry about me, and postpone dinner." After that, he still held the teacup and sipped it lightly.

Huizhu only felt Yinzhen's slight glance, but it seemed to be a scorching lock, and there was a half-moment missed shot in her heart.

For a while, Xiaojuan brought hot water and foreign towels with her hands and feet, Huizhu didn't think about it, and obediently responded to Yinzhen's words, pulled Hongli to retreat behind the screen, and washed and changed clothes. After cleaning up, Huizhu removed her head and face ornament, put on a cloud-blue plain cotton robe, and walked out of the bedroom.

A smell of food lingered in the inner room, mixed with the stomach can't help but caress the stomach, suddenly there is a feeling of hunger, look down at Hongli who seems to be swallowing saliva on the left hand side, chuckled, it seems that their mother and son are hungry, in Concubine De that there is no good food.

Baolian sat on the hot kang, saw Huizhu Hongli and the two, stood happily on the kang, waved her hand and muttered: "Brother Eniang——, brother ——— come, eat, Bao'er is hungry." Seeing her lovely daughter, Huizhu still had the previous crampedness, walked to the kang in three or five steps, leaned over and pinched Baolian's nose, and said funny: "What's the matter, our Bao'er is hungry, what a lazy pig." ”

Baolian was not convinced, leaned forward, pointed at Hongli deeply, and replied forcefully: "Brother, she is a lazy pig, she is hungry." ”

Ben Zhi stared at Hongli on the kang table in a daze, and was coldly pointed out by Baolian, and saw that the whole room turned their heads to look at him, and his round face turned red, Fang Ying came over, and immediately looked at the culprit angrily, and was about to fight for the long. Suddenly, I saw Yinzhen sitting at the kang table with a serious face, not daring to make a mistake, but he was unwilling, and he raised his face fiercely, and glared at Baolian quickly, and then stood in place dejectedly.

Baolian shouted and pointed: "Brother-fierce Bao'er, E-Niang beats." These words made Hongli suddenly angry, and he wanted to argue with Baolian, but Yinzhen coughed slightly and interrupted Shengsheng.

Yinzhen looked at the son of a small adult, but at this time he had a temper with the two-year-old Baolian, but he was afraid of him, so he had to swallow this breath deflatedly, and he was very aggrieved, so he couldn't help laughing, Fang coughed slightly, and covered up: "Okay, the two brothers and sisters don't fight, let's eat." Hongli puffed out his cheeks and reluctantly responded.

Huizhu took a bowl of radish and mutton soup, scooped half a spoonful of chopped green onions on the soup, handed it to Hongli, and said, "Drink the soup while it's hot, go and get rid of the cold." Hongli took it easily, buried his head and took a sip, remembered that something was wrong, secretly glanced at Yinzhen, and hurriedly added the last sentence: "Please also ask Eniang to stick to herself, no need to cook for her son." ”

Huizhu choked on the soup by Hongli's words, hurriedly turned her back, covered her mouth with a brocade hand, coughed for a while, and waited until her face was crimson with a cough before returning to normal, turned around and apologized: "The concubine is rude, let the master smile." Yinzhen frowned and looked at the three parents and children, feeling excluded, and was extremely unhappy in his heart, and ignored Huizhu's faux pas, and asked, "Baolian will also eat by herself?" ”

Huizhu was surprised by Yinzhen's good speech, if he changed the previous sentence, he would not have to train a few words, but he was surprised, but his face was not obvious, and he looked at Baolian who was holding a spoon and eating obediently, and replied: "Bao'er is squeamish, and she learns to speak slowly, and she was laughed at by Hongli a few words half a month ago, so she wanted to eat by herself." ”

Yinzhen was a little dazed, and he couldn't help but flash a scene from a few years ago in his mind, that is, Hongli had just learned to eat alone, and he was also curious to ask, just like now. Thinking of this, Yinzhen's brows frowned deeper, and he faintly felt that he had missed something that could no longer be made up for spreading in his chest, and he didn't like this stuffy feeling very much, so he said "En" and covered up the past, but the frowning eyebrows have not been stretched.

After dinner, after rinsing, Yinzhen died.

Huizhu rubbed in the east chamber for most of the hour, although she saw that the hour was not at 8 o'clock, she still returned to the main room with embarrassment.

In the inner room, the kang table has been opened, and the fur mattress has been re-set on it, Yinzhen supports her forehead with one hand, leaning on it, and holding a book in the other hand, the writing is blocked, and Huizhu can't see what the book is, but guess that it is not the idle books she often reads.

Yinzhen heard the sound, glanced up, and returned: "Hongli can they be placed?" Huizhu nodded and said, "They are very obedient, and they washed and slept early." Yinzhen also nodded as an answer, and then stopped speaking.

Huizhu was put aside, feeling that she had nothing to say, and wanted to find something to do and cover up the past. Suddenly, his heart moved, and he remembered the embroidery that Concubine De wanted, which was just used to beat the time.

As her mind turned, Huizhu had already opened the box of the Rosewood Carved Glass Dragon Pattern Duobao Pavilion, took the red sandalwood carved round box, wrapped it in a piece of oilskin paper, and walked lightly to the low place next to the candlestick and sat down. Uncover the box, there are threads, scissors, embroidery braces and other things, and open the oily skin, take out a piece of ginger silk cloth, stretch it with an embroidery brace, and then take the needle and thread and start threading the needle and thread, and start the hand-embroidery work.

The house was instantly quiet, the wind howled outside, and the sky was freezing; The candle fire in the house is warm, and it is as warm as spring.

Yinzhen glanced over the side of the book, looked at Huizhu, and saw that she was doing a female celebrity again, and said in her heart: "I still haven't changed the habit of holding needles at night for many years", and blurted out in his mouth: "What embroidery work needs to be done at this time, there is no arrangement." Huizhu still stared down at the embroidery brace, but the movement in her hand stopped, and explained: "Today's blessing, Concubine De Niangniang took a fancy to the concubine's female red, and asked the concubine to make embroidery for her. ”

Hearing the word Concubine De, Yinzhen's heart was upright, and it happened that Huizhu took the initiative to mention this matter, and she also said along with the words, secretly thinking in her heart, and said unchanged on her face: "You went to the palace today to ask for peace, and the time to return to the house is much later than before, and Fujin and the Li family will return to the house before dark." ”

Huizhu remembered the meaning of Concubine De's words, and recalled the secret help a few days ago, and unconsciously partially felt partial to the man on the kang who seemed to be familiar and strange, and had a faint sympathy or pity in her heart. It's just that Concubine De and Yinzhen are mother and son after all, and the matter between them can't be questioned by her, Yinzhen herself knows that it's one thing for Concubine De to be biased in Yinzhen's heart, and it's another thing for her to tell her.

Yin Zhen saw that Huizhu had not answered for a long time, and there must be a cat in it, her eyes flashed, and she said "En" with doubts. Huizhu was startled at first, and came back to her senses, the longer the time dragged on, the more suspicious it would be, it was better to answer the words first, so she smiled slightly: "Concubine De Niangniang thought that Xu Ri didn't see Hongli, so she left the concubine mother and son for a while, and by the way, she also told the concubine some tricks, so that the concubine could go back to the house to embroider it." In fact, the concubine didn't stay in the palace for more than an hour, mainly because when she came back from the palace, the snow road was muddy and the carriage was difficult to travel, so it was delayed for a long time. Yinzhen was noncommittal, and looked at Huizhu again, with a deep gaze.

Huizhu "chuckled" in her heart, thought about it, and seemed to suddenly remember, and then hesitated: "Concubine De also mentioned... The younger brother of the concubine's mother's family...... She moved to Guangzhou, and she was promoted to three levels in a row...... Concubine ....... "The words were still unfinished, she lowered her head, twisted her eyebrows lightly, and waited for Yinzhen's reply with some apprehension.

In fact, this is also something that Huizhu has been holding in her heart for the past two months, but she can't ask it, just take this opportunity to ask, one can solve the doubts in her heart, and the other can cover up the past in the virtual answer, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Yin Zhen looked at it carefully, not missing the slightest change in Huizhu's expression, and after a long time, he said lightly: "This matter is not against the system, your brother is from the formal imperial examination, and he has served under the military department for many years, this time he can be promoted to three levels in a row, and it is also because he has enough qualifications and is transferred to Guangzhou to garrison." ”

Huizhu heard Yinzhen say this, and the thing that was eighty percent sure in her heart had become completely sure that it was Yinzhen's help, and now she didn't know how to reply. Secretly awkward in his heart, he gently bit his thin lip, put the embroidery in his hand on the collapse, and said, "The concubine is promoted by my brother Xie Ye." ”

Yin Zhen was carefully calculating in his heart, Concubine De was really paying attention to his every move, and acting like this only for his other son, and he couldn't help but feel a little cold in his heart. Some gloomy eyes, but in their eyes, there are scenes of Yinzhen leading the army to the west, Emperor Kangxi personally went to the hall to salute, and the magnificent scenes when the horns and flags were blown are still below the king of the expedition, and the drama is subdued, and the loud shouts are shocking.

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