At the end of November, the Nian family's sudden death hall was transferred to the next month, and within a few days, all parties participated in the excerpts of Nian Qianyao; At the same time, the Minister of Parliament also submitted the results of the trial to Yinzhen, listing 92 major crimes for the year and requesting a canonical punishment. However, Yin Zhennian remembered that Nian Qianyao had made outstanding achievements and meritorious contributions to the society, so he specially gave him self-punishment in prison.

Just when the powerful young general was ruined and sentenced to prison, Huizhu's foot injury was also healed. did not say a word about the birth of Jin Feng on that day, and took charge of the palace affairs of the Old Summer Palace in the name of the posthumous very calmly, and personally presided over the funeral of the Nian family. As for Yinzhen, he understood that on the day of the Jin Ceremony, Huizhu had a diaphragm in his heart, and he didn't care about her indifference, but only said that he would go to her after the busiest days of the season, that is, time has passed, and there will be nothing to do.

In this way, under the deliberate coldness of the two, the Old Summer Palace also showed low pressure, and it was not until after Laba that there was gradually the joy of the New Year.

As the saying goes: "The solstice is worth giving new clothes, and going back and forth to celebrate and play gambling." "On the last day of November, it snowed heavily, Huizhu began to prepare new clothes, busy for two or three days, explained all the matters, and got some free time, so he invited Geng Shi and some good wives to play some leaf fans, dominoes, canopy and other entertainment, not only to kill some time, but also cheap to gather and play.

This day and night at the beginning of the snow, it is rare to be sunny, Zhaojia's and Fucha's two people met and handed over the sign to enter the park to ask for peace, Huizhu saw that the snow stopped outside but the wind was strong, so he simply found Geng's to come over and gather enough four people to get together to play dominoes.

In the inner hall of the main room, Su Xin has been arranged neatly, a square table with red sandalwood curly grass pattern legs is set in the middle, a large chair with red sandalwood carved dragon pattern armrests is placed on each side, each chair is built with a woolen mattress, and a gilt enamel foot stove is placed under the chair, and a double layer of red sandalwood is placed between every two chairs, and a snack such as melon and fruit snacks is placed on the several.

The four of them sat down, and Geng asked with a smile, "Who is the Zhuang today?" Zhao Jia's and Fucha's eyes looked at each other, and they laughed and said: "The arm can't twist the thigh, of course it's the concubine's mother's dealer." Huizhu feigned anger and said: "Bullying this palace is a novice, and the three of you want to make this palace lose more than a dozen yuan, this can't be done!" "That's the case, but the three of them don't dare to do it, they often deliberately release water, and Huizhu can't lose anywhere.

Zhao Jiashi thought to himself for a moment, picked his eyes and chuckled: "Now the north wind is blowing cold, it is better to change the way to warm up the body, it always makes the mother lose money, and the concubines can't afford it." Everyone's eyes lit up, and they said with interest: "What do you say?" Zhao Jiashi said: "It's still the old rule, but the loser doesn't have to pay, just drink a glass of wine." ”

The three of them hesitated, and Fucha hesitated: "This is in the palace, if you are drunk, ...... Zhaojia didn't care: "It's nineteen today, and there are only a few days before the New Year's Festival. Besides, we drink fruit wine, which is not easy to intoxicate. When the three of them heard this, they pondered that the fruit wine was cooked and then drunk, but it was not very strong, so they nodded in agreement.

Su Xin proposed from the side: "Osmanthus wine, the wine is fragrant and mellow, slightly sweet, and the slave maid went to take it." Fucha was surprised: "Osmanthus wine is the royal drinking of Long Live Lord!" Huizhu smiled and said lightly: "Because of the New Year's Festival, this palace also has some, drink it." Fucha looked at Huizhu's expression. I was secretly annoyed and reckless, so I only smiled and didn't mention it.

After a while, he took four six-sided crystal cups used in the Qing Palace, poured a full cup into each of them, and the four began to play cards.

After playing for nearly two hours, Huizhu raised his head and put a cup in his body, and the empty cup in Hang's hand, shook his head and said: "The small card has been no one for a long time, and the victory and defeat are immediate, and the palace has drunk four cups in a row." The Lantern Festival Hongli brothers come over, if they see that the palace is drunk, it is not good. After the words fell, Su Xin took the tea and handed it to Huizhu to relieve the hangover.

Geng Shi matched the four cards in front of him in pairs, and said helplessly: "Speaking of the two brothers, the concubine stomped her feet angrily. Hongday is half a year younger than the fourth elder brother, but he is not as good as the fourth elder brother, and he has never done anything serious except for fighting and annoying Mr. all day long. "Anyway, it's not enough, it's shaking and sighing."

Everyone covered their mouths and chuckled, Huizhu remembered that Hongtian was a fool, he didn't have a discipline, but he was also a spoiled boy, and he couldn't help but shake his head secretly, and then a sentence appeared in his mind, and he immediately deduced that Hongday's temperament was Yinzhen's intentional indulgence, and he was unhappy in his heart.

Fucha has always wanted to make up for Fang Cai's gaffe, this time Huizhu's face was dark, and he hurriedly diverted the topic and said: "Yubin Niangniang is not worried, which family is not serious, and after marrying the wife of "Blocked", they are all accepted by the temperament, and when the time comes, when the time comes, the long live master will point out the marriage to the fifth elder brother, and the Fu Jin and the side Fu Jin will welcome it together, and they will worry about the living nature. Huizhu didn't like the second half of Fucha's words, and frowned inadvertently.

As he was talking, he only heard a sound of footsteps outside, and then a male voice with a little milk smiled: "Mrs. Fucha's words are inappropriate, Brother Ben just welcomed Fujin, and they don't want to control me." As soon as they heard this, everyone knew that it was coming, and they all looked around, and an ordinary-looking young man came into view, wearing a mink fur crown hat, wearing a stone blue flowered eight-group robe, covered with a royal blue tuanhua horse coat, and striding in. He was followed by Hongli and Fu Heng.

Geng stopped the cards in his hand and said hatefully: "As soon as the age is over, it will be fifteen, which is the age when it is time to get married, and you will talk nonsense again." Hongli said indifferently: "Don't marry a wife, fortunately, this time the Naoli flood canceled the draft, otherwise if you really marry a wife, you will leave them aside." As he spoke, he smiled proudly: "I will have to wait three years for the next draft, and Eniang's abacus will not be able to hit." Geng Shi listened, and his straight teeth itched.

Huizhu glared at her, and said angrily: "Look at your mother's anger, why don't you come over and accompany you." Hongday is also clever, he didn't dare to really anger Geng's family, so he hurriedly gave his hands away, Huizhu saw it, and took Geng's hand and persuaded him solidly: "Don't be angry, in fact, it's good to wait for the child to get married." Besides, it's more than two years late, so I don't have to worry about choosing the right one. ”

Geng Shi was angry, and followed Huizhu's words, but he was quite disapproving, it is customary for this prince to become a family fifteen, and only when he becomes a family can he be invited by the Zongren Mansion to seal Beizi, so as to enter the poor, this year did not get married, and then it was three years later, and he entered the court three years late, and the gap during the period was big. Thinking about it again, Hongli had already entered the business at the beginning of this year, and it was rumored that Yinzhen intended to marry him, so that Huizhu didn't have to be as anxious as her. This cool talk is also the truth!

The mind turned worse and worse, Geng did not feel that he lost the interest in playing cards, and saw Hongtian fall on the side of the kang on the appearance of giggling, and then compared with Hongli standing behind Huizhu, he was sullen and forgot to release the water, and the cards in his hand were turned over, but it was a little bigger than Huizhu, and this game was won.

"Ouch" Huizhu slapped her palm, glanced back at Hongli, and said: "Go and go, and say that it brought joy to the palace, you come here, and the palace will lose faster." After finishing his sentence, he drank his cup very happily.

Hongli's smile remained unchanged, and he took out a one-inch thick blue book from behind him as if he was juggling: "The complete collection of "Three Words and Two Beats", the text is in the category of words, and Eniang guarantees to like it." ”

Zhao Jiashi smiled: "The fourth elder brother is really filial, Xiao is Niangniang likes books of this type, so I will find them for you." Huizhu listened to it, and couldn't help but get closer to Zhaojia's family, and was about to be humble for a few words, when she heard Hongtian complain: "It's boring, fourth brother, let's go, it's rare to get out of school early today, and you sent the book to Niangniang again." After that, seeing Geng's face sank, he couldn't help but say, dragged Hongli with one hand, and Fu Heng with the other and walked out of the house quickly.

Geng was so angry that he couldn't help it, he couldn't wait to twist Hongyang's ears and grab him for a while, but because everyone was present, he couldn't pull his face for a while, so he had to hide his thoughts, and continued to play cards with a smile.

It was only a little more than an hour later, and it was already a little dark outside. The three people at the table estimated that the hour was not early, and saw that Huizhu seemed to be a little hazy and drunk, so they got up and said goodbye. Huizhu did drink too much, her body was tired, and she didn't do much to keep it, so she ordered Xiao Ranzi to send someone away, and got up and went back to the inner room to change clothes.

Xu is in a hurry to get up, as soon as he stood up, he only felt dizzy, he hurriedly took Xiaojuan's hand, and did not say anything about changing the washing, and walked to the warm inner room, and sat on the couch of the incense and burning kang, Huizhu was drunk for seven or eight minutes, and barely held on to some energy while untying the outer robe, and waved back in a slurred voice: "Retreat, that's it." Before the words were gone, his eyelids sank, and he fell asleep on the couch.

Xiaojuan looked funny, and said in her heart that the fruit wine that has been aged for three years is no longer intoxicating, and it cannot be drunk like water, and it is natural to be intoxicating. After thinking about it, the room was as warm as spring, but it would not freeze, so she also slept like Huizhu like this, and then took a mattress to cover it, and retreated from the lightly curtained. I don't know how long I slept, Huizhu felt a little chill on her body in a daze, and went to find a mattress, but after groping on the couch for a long time and still failed, she had to open her eyes to see, and vaguely seemed to see a tall figure of navy blue standing in front of the collapse.

Tall figure? Huizhu woke up a little at the moment, shook her head and stabilized her mind, and then looked at it again, and saw clearly that it was Yinzhen who was wearing a Zhu Wei knot crown, no beam crown hat, and a navy blue embroidered Nine Dragons pattern. And he was stepping on a mattress at his feet, staring at her with burning eyes.

The unscrupulous gaze roamed over her, Huizhu felt a little uncomfortable, couldn't help swallowing saliva, then reflexively reached out and pulled the placket of her clothes, and asked, "Why is the emperor here?" After speaking, everyone was shocked, and felt that the voice was soft, so he hurriedly cleared his throat and said perfunctorily: "The concubine's clothes are not neat, please ask the emperor to avoid it for the time being." ”

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