said that after visiting the imperial garden that day, Shuning found an opportunity to pull Wanning to the shelter, told her about the emperor's appearance after she left, and said worriedly: "I think the emperor may have been watching in secret for a while, I don't know if I heard the words of the second sister, if there are any bad consequences, what can I do?" ”

Wan Ning was stunned and a little panicked: "No...... No way...... I didn't say anything terrible, but I ...... The Queen Mother and the Fifth Elder Brother ...... will support me...... After the talent performance that day, the Queen Mother praised me for singing well......"

Shuning sighed and said, "Second sister, haven't you heard that the Queen Mother is sick?" Who knows if she still has the energy to take care of this matter anymore. What's more, according to the temper of the Queen Mother, as long as the emperor has made up her mind, she may not say anything more. Second sister, you are too reckless this time. Those words, if they are said by their own sisters at home or when close friends are alone, it doesn't matter, they are just a joke in the boudoir. It's just that outside, in a place like the palace, you should be more cautious in your words and deeds. You've only known that Chang Lu for a few days? Dare to be so casual? What's more, there was also the cousin of the Wei family who was present at the time, and she and you were just nodding friends. How can you say that to your face? ”

Wan Ning lowered her head and wrung her handkerchief, silent, and said for a long time: "There was no one else at that time...... Chang Lu is my good friend, and that Wei Wan is your cousin...... Besides, I'm just kidding...... I didn't say anything excessive. Chang Lu will soon be pointed out to the Seventh Elder Brother, and many people know it. When the concubine praised her, I didn't see it. But you are personally experienced. Since it's a fact, Chang Lu is just shy...... I'm not talking nonsense......"

Shuning had another headache, almost bitterly: "Second sister, I remember that on the second day after entering the palace, I told you about the show girl who was killed, and advised you to restrain yourself in everything, and don't let people catch the handle." You promised well at the time, and you ...... also settled for a few days, but why did I leave a sign. Just become flamboyant? I don't pay attention to what I say and do, and I get together with those show girls every day. What was their attitude towards you? Now that I'm so good with you, who knows what's in mind? As for the ...... that often shows."

She recalled her words and deeds that often appeared in the imperial garden, and her heart felt a slight chill: "I don't think it's simple. I'm afraid it's not as innocent and pitiful as you imagined, is it really for the seventh elder brother...... I can't say for sure. Sister better stay away from her, don't be calculated. These days, let's be more restrained, even if it's just to pretend to be dignified and virtuous. When the will to marry comes, you can do whatever you like, okay? ”

Wanning lowered her head and didn't speak, and Shuning urged a few more times. She raised her head and stared at Shuning, bit her lip, and said, "Third sister." Lately, I've only been playing with other people. It's too much to ignore you and Yuan Ning and Su Su. Are you upset? Just say it, I'll accompany you more in the future. You...... Don't say that about my friend again......"

Shuning was stunned, and a wave of anger surged up in her heart, and her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys were as if they had been poured with chili pepper water, and she was so choked that she couldn't speak. Finally pressed it down, she took a deep breath and said, "No need! The second sister can do whatever she likes, I won't care anymore! Then he turned around and left.

Damn Wanning! I kindly remind you that you actually think of me as a villain who sows discord?! It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin! I'm going to ignore you anymore!!

She walked back angrily all the way, with some force under her feet, and when she returned to the room, her ankle was faintly painful, so she shrank in the room, read books, practiced calligraphy and played the piano, and occasionally chatted with Yuan Ning and Wei Wan, and stopped going out if she had nothing to do.

And Wan Ning was a little surprised when she saw Shu Ning leave suddenly, I don't know where she offended her, and she still acted according to her own heart, but fortunately, she didn't forget what the other party said about the emperor's presence that day, and she acted a little more restrained on weekdays, and asked someone to send a message to the fifth elder brother to ask for a tone. It's just that the messengers said that the fifth elder brother was serving the decoction in Cining Palace, and she couldn't find anyone, so she was a little worried, but later when she saw Concubine Yi and other harem ladies inviting the show girl to drink tea and chat, they would also take her with her, and her attitude was also normal, so she was relieved.

Because the emperor did not make a decree to determine when to determine the place where the show girl went, the harem was faintly commotion, and from time to time a concubine picked up a beautiful or related show girl to drink tea and talk. Wanning, Yuanning, Susu, Jiahui, Changlu, Baokey and others all went. Shuning herself has never been invited, and when she saw other girls coming back in the rain with umbrellas, their beautiful clothes were splashed with muddy water, and their sideburns were scattered and messy, and she couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

On this day, she was practicing calligraphy, but suddenly a little eunuch came, saying that the emperor was going to summon her to Wei Wan. Shu Ning and Wei Wan glanced at each other, they were a little surprised, because the little eunuch was urging, they hurriedly changed into decent clothes and went to Qianqing Palace, behind them Chuxiu Palace everyone was talking, and there were all kinds of speculations.

Shu Ning came to the Qianqing Palace in fear, and as the little eunuch entered through the side door, he first waited in a small room for a while, and helped Wei Wan to clean up his hair and clothes a little, and someone came to invite them into the Xinuan Pavilion.

As soon as Shuning stepped into the Xinuan Pavilion, her eyebrows jumped.

Tong Ying was inside, sorting out the four treasures of the study room on a table next to her, and just glanced at her casually.

This eye contains a lot of meaning, and slightly calms Shuning's heart. She casually and Wei Wan saluted the emperor who was sitting on the throne, and as soon as she heard the words "start up", she got up and stood up, and lowered her hands to listen to the emperor's orders.

In addition to Emperor Kangxi and Tongying, there were other people in the house. Guowei came to the palace for some reason, and the emperor called Wei Wan to come, but he asked her to meet her grandfather who had been separated for many days. The grandfather and grandson solemnly thanked Kangxi, and Shuning also met his maternal uncle who had only met twice.

Guowei only said some words on the scene to Shuning, and was strict and kind to Wei Guan. In front of Kangxi, I asked her about her general performance recently, and taught her to abide by the discipline of her boudoir and follow the rules in order to repay the king and Yunyun. Wei Wan responded one by one, and his attitude was as indifferent as ever.

Seeing this, Kangxi made a round, saying that Guo Wei had not seen his granddaughter for a long time, so there was no need to be so strict, and asked about Wei Guan's homework on weekdays. Knowing that she was good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, he asked her to write a few words on the spot, and then turned around to deal with others.

Shuning originally saw that Emperor Kangxi seemed to only care about talking to the ancestors and grandsons of Guowei, and actually hung Tongying there with herself, I don't know why. But seeing Tongying waiting unhurriedly, she seemed to be confident. She believed that Tongying must have his own reasons, so she also patiently waited quietly.

Kangxi glanced at Shuning a few times, and then pointed at Tongying with his finger. Ask: "Do you recognize who he is?" Shuning hurriedly replied: "Back to the emperor, the slave and maid recognize that this is Tongying Beizi of Prince Jian's mansion." Kangxi said "um" and asked, "How did you recognize him?" ”

Shuning was shocked. I don't know if he knows anything when he asks like this, so he can only Shen Jiufeng Xing 5200 replied breathlessly: "Back to the emperor, the slave's father was an official in Fengtian, because my brother wants to go to school. So he asked him to worship a master. It just so happened that Tongying Beizi also worshipped that gentleman as a teacher, and became a friend of the same classmate, and from time to time on weekdays, I made an appointment to go horseback riding and shooting.

Kangxi looked at Tongying with a smile: "Oh? It seems to be a childhood sweetheart. Tongying smirked twice: "The slave is small with her brother." Kangxi snorted at him, and then asked Shuning: "Tell me what happened?" ”

Shuning hurriedly said: "Later, the slave's father returned to Beijing after his term of office expired, and brought his family to Guangzhou to take office. Only my brother stayed in Beijing to study. First in family studies. Later, he was recommended to enter the sect as a companion. After Tongying Beizi returned to Beijing. The two were able to reunite. It's just that the slave maid was in Guangzhou with her parents at that time, and she never saw her. Later, the slave's father, Ding Wei, returned to Beijing. Bei Ziye went back to Fengtian again, and he didn't see him again until he passed by the slave maid's family's other courtyard in Fangshan when he returned to Beijing in the autumn of the previous year. ”

Kangxi paused: "Autumn? Do you remember clearly? Isn't it winter? Shu Ning's mind flashed and replied, "It's autumn." After that, I saw Tongying, who was standing next to him, quietly giving a thumbs up with his drooping left hand, knowing that he had made the right bet.

Tongying touched her head and said to Kangxi embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, that's it...... That time. The slave still writes in his homeland. Both of them helped to fight. ”

Kangxi once again put on a smile that seemed to be smiling, and Tongying laughed twice and didn't speak again. The former turned his head to see how Wei Guan's handwriting was, and after a while, he turned around and said to Shuning: "You have also learned some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, right?" This kid just said that when he paints, you give him a hand, and you don't have to ask him to open his mouth to know what pen and ink he wants, it's really like a worm in his stomach, but really? ”

Shu Ning said with some black lines: "It's Tongying Beizi who praised it, maybe the slave maid has seen him paint a few times, so he knows some of his habits." ”

Kangxi smiled at Tongying: "Then try it, just draw it here, let me see if you kid is a bully." Hmm, the girl over there painted a lotus, I see ...... If the peony blooms well in April, you can paint that. It's just that you don't want to tell her out loud what pen and ink to use. ”

This, this, this...... Is it deliberately embarrassing? It's not surprising to draw without a physical object, but it's not surprising to ask another person to guess what kind of brush and ink the person who is drawing wants...... Brother Tong Ying, when did you offend Emperor Kangxi?

Shuning was more worried that it sounded like Tongying was hinting at her relationship with the emperor to him, but the emperor's reaction was uncertain, if the cooperation was not good this time, would it affect the future of the two?

She glanced at Tongying worriedly, but he gave her a reassuring look, calmly unfolding the drawing paper, his hand groping on the paper, as if he was setting the layout. Shuning perked up, and also concentrated, paying attention to the movements of Tongying's palms while adding water and grinding ink.

When Tongying stopped moving her hands and made specific ideas, Shuning began to prepare the paint. Traditionally, the colors of peonies are mostly red, pink, yellow, and white, and they may also be blue, and the leaves should be blue, and perhaps ochre. As she thought about it, she adjusted the colors, put them on a small white porcelain plate, lined them up on the right side of the table in the order of rainbow colors, filled the pen with water, and then picked a pen according to the size of the paper floor and the layout of the large place she had just seen.

After Tong Ying finished thinking about it, she reached out and took the pen, dipped it in red and fell on the paper, and Liao Liao drew a few petals with a few strokes, obviously drawing freehand. Shu Ning watched from the side, thinking about what he would use next, and handed it over when he saw the right time.

She mostly handed it off, but it wasn't that she didn't miss it, but Tongying was alert, and she made mistakes, and she could always get through. Shuning was secretly ashamed and became more and more attentive. Later, when the painting was almost finished, Tong Ying accidentally dropped ink on the painting, and in a dilemma, she handed him a thin pen dipped in ochre, reminding him to change the ink dot to a bee.

When the painting was completed, Kangxi had already finished appreciating Wei Guan's words, came over to take a look, and teased: "The peony is the most magnificent, but you actually painted it not with a fine brush?" ”

Tong Ying said with a smile: "The minion is originally good at freehand flowers, if it is a fine brush, I am afraid that the painting will not be finished until dark." ”

Kangxi snorted coldly, turned around and praised Shuning, and said to Guowei: "The two girls are good, your daughter is really a good mother." Guowei was busy and modest. Kangxi waved his hand and called "Xuanji", and a palace maid walked in outside the door, dressed like an ordinary palace maid, but with a few more trims on her clothes, and hung a string of tassels on her head.

She obeyed the emperor's will and handed over the reward to Shuning and Wei Wan, Shuning got a box of high-quality lake pens, and Wei Wan wanted another inkstone, the two knelt down together to thank them, Kangxi let them go back, and after a while, he turned his head and scolded Tongying with a smile: "Stinky boy." ”

Shuning and Wei Wan went back with umbrellas all the way, I don't know if it was rain or sweat, and when they returned to Chuxiu's palace room to change clothes, they found that their backs were soaked. She thought back to the situation at the time afterwards, and thought that there should be nothing obvious wrong, this time the summoning was probably what Tongying said to the emperor. She felt a burst of joy in her heart, and a little nervous, going up and down.

However, she and Wei Wan were summoned this time, but it caused all kinds of rumors in Chuxiu Palace, and even some show girls thought that they would enter the palace as concubines, and they were very jealous. Wei Wan has always ignored these gossip and still reads books by himself, while Shuning is worried that spreading the truth too early may affect the future of herself and Tongying, so she refuses to reveal what is going on. However, the rules of the people in the Qianqing Palace are very strict, and people outside can easily inquire about what is going on, and the rumors will become more and more intense.

Wan Ning was even more curious to ask Shu Ning what was going on, Shu Ning just said lightly: "It's just that the uncle from outside the family entered the palace, and the emperor graced, let us go to see his old man." The second sister doesn't have to listen to other people's nonsense. The lady in the palace is still the relatives and elders of the two of us. Wan Ning saw that her attitude was not as kind as before, so she took her leave.

Shuning's statement gradually spread out, but others were skeptical, and Xiunu cited the example of the first emperor Zeng Li's aunt and nephew, as well as the empress of Emperor Taizong and the late empress dowager, who were also aunts and nephews serving a husband. For a while, there were rumors in Chu Xiu's palace, although there was no movement in the harem, but the eyes of the show girls looking at Shuning and Wei Wan had changed.

Among them, because of Wei Guan's outstanding appearance, he excelled in learning and became the most hated object. Shuning became incidental instead. In the face of the concern of relatives and acquaintances such as Yuan Ning and Susu, she really couldn't cry or laugh. And Wei Wan seemed to hear nothing, as if he couldn't see anything, and still did what he had to do as usual, which made Shuning very ashamed to see it, his own cultivation was not enough.

Within two days, the rain finally stopped, and Yanxi Palace suddenly sent someone to invite Wei Wan and Shuning to dinner.