On the first day of the first year, he went to the palace for a banquet, and it was not until the evening that Huizhu took a carriage, took a nap, and when she arrived in the courtyard, she just cleaned up and went to sleep. On the second day of the new year, because Yinzhen wanted to accompany the Wulanala clan to the Feiyang Ancient Mansion to pay New Year's greetings, there was no need to go to the main courtyard to ask for peace, so Su Xin also slept with Huizhu, and she went to take care of the affairs of the hospital.

Huizhu slept very deeply this night, until she felt hungry and woke up leisurely, lazily called Xiaojuan into the house, squinted out the window, rubbed her forehead and asked, "What time is it?" Xiaojuan took a set of flag clothes from the big shelf, walked to the bed, and said with a smile: "It's noon at almost the hour, and Mama just made the slave and maid call the master to get up, and the master happened to wake up." Huizhu frowned, muttered, "Why did you sleep for so long", and then asked, "What about Hongli?" Xiao Juan replied: "Little Brother is taken by Mama Dong and Xiao Ranzi to play in the yard." As he spoke, he waited for Huizhu to change her clothes.

After washing, Huizhu covered a hand warmer, and Xiaojuan helped her hand to go to the yard to find Hongli. After going down the verandah, I saw Mama Dong pestle at the moon gate in the backyard, Huizhu smiled: "Why is Mama standing there, Hongli and Xiao Ranzi are running to the back kitchen again?" Without waiting for Mama Dong to answer, I listened to the two calls of "Eniang, Eniang", and then I saw Hongli, who was wearing a small red jacket and a yellow tiger head hat, came out of the moon gate, and carried a red carp lamp in his hand, and ran to him slowly.

Huizhu glanced at the carp lantern and asked, "Where did the carp lantern come from?" But Mama Zhang sent it to play? Hongli said happily: "It was grandma who gave Hongli." Huizhu looked in.

After a while, Geng took Hongday to the door to pay New Year's greetings, and said a conversation, Geng saw Huizhu's eyes fall on the carp lamp mentioned by Hongday, and said with a smile: "Lord is good, I sent someone to send it this morning, and Hongday's kid likes it very much." As he spoke, he suddenly covered his mouth and smiled: "Looking at the two brothers holding each other, just like the two boys sitting down under the God of Wealth, they are placed together to make a New Year." Huizhu looked back and chuckled: "It's really a bit similar, I think this lamp is indeed a little different." ”

After finishing speaking, he raised his voice to greet Xiaowen, Xiaowen made hot water, cleaned her hands and prepared food for her brother, and left nothing to say.

As soon as he cleaned his hands, Su Xin put the dishes on the table and said with a smile: "Today's kitchen dishes are simple, so I made a few side dishes and ingots soup, and Geng Gege and Brother Hongday will have to do some." Geng said with a smile: "Su Xin, on the second day of this year, what do you eat if you don't eat ingots made of wontons, but don't think I'll come to your master's place to eat again." The people in the room laughed and said welcome, welcome. After lunch, Hongday kowtowed to Huizhu, Huizhu gave a red envelope, and then beat Mama Dong and others to take the brothers to the yard to play.

In the inner room, Su Xin poured tea himself, Geng took it with both hands, took a bite, and was about to boast a few words, when he suddenly heard bursts of laughter outside the house, so he said another word: "The child was suffocated in the winter, but fortunately, the snow melted that day Chinese New Year's Eve ......" Speaking of this, Geng Shi seemed to remember something, raised his eyes and looked up and down the whole room, and said: "Didn't Chinese New Year's Eve long live the painting that day?" Why don't you hang up, this is a great matter of grace. ”

Huizhu frowned almost nowhere and explained: "Since it was rewarded by the Long Live Lord, how dare you hang it casually." I thought about waiting until the sixth day of the new year, when the city opened, and I found a master to frame the painting and hang it in the house. Geng said with a smile: "It's so safe, so as not to break the scroll, it's not good." But when the time comes, the concubine will have to come over to see what this foreigner is drawing. Huizhu listened to Geng's words, but smiled lightly.

On the third day of the new year, the house was busy, in fact, it was busy, and only Yinzhen was busy, from the third to the fifth day of the first month, Yinzhen was not to receive the ministers of the court who came to pay New Year's greetings, or to go to the prince's mansion of several seniors to pay New Year's greetings, and walked a few mansions in a row in just three days, and he couldn't steal a little free.

After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, relatives and friends, greeting each other, the matter of treating guests and giving gifts stopped for a while, and Yinzhen was also idle. But just after a day's rest, an urgent report came from the border pass, and the leader of the Dzungar Ministry sent Dace Lingjiao Dob to lead 10,000 troops to expel the Russian ** team that invaded the Irtysh River region and won the victory. In this way, the imperial court had to discuss it, and combined with the news that Fu Ning sent at the beginning of last year had to be returned, it was necessary to make some arrangements. So, in the following days, Yinzhen devoted himself to the affairs of the Dzungar Ministry, secretly plotting the room for maneuver in this matter, so that his tentacles could extend here.

And the ladies of each family saw that the fifth day had passed, and they no longer tabooed the door, and began to get together warmly. On the sixth day of the first month, the merchant "opened", and everything returned to normal, Huizhu found Gao De and said about the painting scroll mounting, thinking that this painting was given by Emperor Kangxi, and Gao De did not dare to slack off. In the morning, I handed over the words, and in the afternoon, I invited the master of the best calligraphy and painting shop in the capital to come to the house, measure the size, and set the style.

After another three days, the calligraphy and painting shop was framed, and it was inlaid with gold edges, which cost more than half of the ordinary ones. Huizhu saw the day of receipt, sighed in his heart, thinking that the 1,000 taels that Emperor Kangxi gave to Hongli was the difference between the purchase of fur and the previous year, but how to calculate this gold-inlaid jade frame would cost 100 taels of silver, and it seemed that it was destined to have a blood.

Although Huizhu felt sorry for Qian Liang in her heart, she still smiled and praised a few words on her face, and asked Su Xin to pay, who knew that the other party was busy and said: "No need, no need, Manager Gao has already paid the little one, how dare the little one take Niu Hulu Fujin's money." ”

Hearing this, Huizhu looked at Gao De, who was standing with him on the side, Gao De understood, and said with a smile: "Fu Jin said that this is a gift from the emperor, and it will cost six or seven hundred taels to make a good frame, which is a big expense, so let the servants take it from the public, and don't increase the cost of your yard." At the end, he said: "At that time, the master was also there, and after listening to Fujin's proposal, he was also very much in favor." He also said that you should be sour when you have a body, so if Fujin sees some sour fruits in the house, he will send them to you. After speaking, he still looked at Huizhu with a flattering smile. Huizhu didn't like it in her heart, so she didn't seem to know the meaning of Gaode's words, and after saying something, she asked Su Xin to give a reward and sent her out of the courtyard.

After sending people away, Su Xin returned to the house, and when he saw that there was no one left and right, he leaned over and gossiped: "The master has been busy for the past few days, and it is the ninth day of the first month, and he has not come over, but he is still worried about the master's body." Huizhu looked at Su Xin, who was happy with her eyebrows, and didn't bother to say much, so she commanded: "Before noon tomorrow, E-Niang said that she could come over, you let the kitchen cook in the morning and eat in half an hour, and then say a lot of words." Su Xin said: "Slave and maid province, my wife can come once a year, and you can come once a year, and your mother and daughter will be so close." While speaking, Mama Zhang brought over two small servants from the outer courtyard with painting scrolls, and the master and servant stopped talking.

On the morning of the second day, not long after inviting An back to the courtyard, Zhang Jia's and Li's came to the house. Huizhu listened to the rumor, took Hongli out to pick them up, and as soon as she walked to the main hall, she saw them enter the garden. When Zhang Jiashi saw Huizhu, he hurriedly climbed the stairs, grabbed Huizhu's hands, looked and looked at Huizhu's stomach with his eyes, and then choked up and said: "It's a lot fatter than last year, it's good, and you're on the body again." ”

Hui Zhujue and the people in the courtyard all followed Zhang Jia's words, staring at her stomach, and felt a little embarrassed, her face was slightly flushed, and she hurriedly called Hongli and said: "I haven't seen grandma for a year, so don't call grandma soon, well, and your aunt." Hongli listened to the words, tilted his head, and obediently called "grandma" and "aunt", and was instantly happy that Zhang Jia's attention was diverted, and he made love to Hongli for a while, and then went into the house.

Huizhu pulled Zhang Jiashi to the kang and just sat down, Xiaojuan took the futon and put it on the ground.

After this year, Hongli saw the futon, and he didn't need to be taught, so he knelt down on it, kowtowed and said: "Grandma's New Year is auspicious, and grandma Hongli has given grandma a New Year's greeting." Zhang Jiashi hurriedly waved his hand to let Hongli get up, and he couldn't even say it, but his eyebrows and eyes were full of smile and satisfaction. Huizhu persuaded: "What can't be done, he is the grandson of Eniang, and it is right for you to kneel down to pay New Year's greetings." Obedient, Zhang Jiashi responded with a smile, and took the red envelope prepared in advance and handed it to Hongli.

After lunch, Mama Dong waited for Hongli to sleep, and the mother and daughter, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sat together and talked. At this time, Zhang Jiashi carefully asked Huizhu about some of the situation this year, and explained the situation in Niu Hulu's mansion, before pointing to the painting scroll hanging on the west wall and said: "This is a painting given by Long Live Lord, hehe, you said that this foreigner's painting is strange, and it looks like a real person standing in front of you." Huizhu didn't want Emperor Kangxi to appreciate her paintings, and even Zhang Jia's family knew about it.

In his heart, Zhang Jiashi sighed, took Huizhu's hand, and said with relief: "I got the news that Hongli was sent out of the palace last year, and I have always been worried that your mother and son have fallen out of favor in the mansion and have a hard time." Now that you have a body again, Long Live Lord treats you very well, you have to be blessed, and you have served the fourth master well. Huizhu snorted coldly when she heard it, but she didn't disobey her mother's words, so she had to respond obediently.

Fortunately, Zhang Jiashi didn't say this for a while, and then talked about Junxian's marriage at the end of October, and Huizhu suddenly became interested and talked about this topic for half an afternoon. It wasn't until Shen Shizheng saw that the sun was not early, so he stopped talking and sent Zhang Jia and Li away.

As the saying goes, you can't read people during the day, and when he left, Zhang Jiashi recited a few words to Huizhu to serve Yinzhen well, and didn't want to say that everyone arrived, Yinzhen, who had not been here for more than ten days, came over in a court dress when it was time to eat at night.

One hundred and forty-three disputes

The winter days are short, the sky is dark early, before the evening, Huizhu has let Xiao Ranzi light the lamp, the whole yard is bright, and it is during the New Year, the red gauze is bright, the yellow and white lights are down, bright and festive, but with the warmth of the veins, so that people can't help but float a light smile.

Yin Zhen strode into the courtyard, and saw the brightness of the courtyard, his footsteps stopped slightly, and the cold and hard lines on his face also eased a lot inadvertently. When I entered the house, the warm and fragrant smell and the smell of hot food greeted me, and a warm current suddenly surged through my heart, and then my nerves were also relaxed, and the tiredness between my eyebrows was fully revealed.

Huizhu was originally crooked on the kang, laughing and teasing Hongli to speak, while waiting for Xiao Wu Xiaowen to set up the meal, but I didn't want to listen to Xiao Ranzi's message that Yinzhen was coming, and I couldn't figure out how this person came, so I saw that Yinzhen had already lifted the curtain and entered the back room, so I had to kick my shoes quickly, and Su Xin together, and waited for Yinzhen to go to the cloak and warm his hat.

Yinzhen took off his shoes and went to the kang, his eyes were slightly closed, and while washing his face with Su Xin, he said: "Usually when you come to eat, you can't sit up, but now that you have a body, you have the rules." Forget it, you better not stand aside, just sit. Huizhu looked at Yinzhen with a look of enjoyment with a cold eye, pursed her lips, did not speak, and walked to the other side of the kang and sat down.

At this time, I saw Hongli, who was sitting in the kang table, puffed out his cheeks and interjected: "Amma, you sat on Eniang's seat, and this is also Eniang's." As he spoke, he threw his whole body over, dragging Yinzhen to his back on the pillow and pulling it to Huizhu.

Xiao Juan exclaimed: "Little brother, slow down, don't knock over the kang table and beat the dishes." Hearing the exclamation, Yin Zhen opened her eyes and glared at Xiao Juan in displeasure, and when she saw Xiao Juan hurriedly silence and lowered her head, she reprimanded with a straight face: "Is there a rule, what do you do by shouting and screaming." And you Hongli, it's about to be dinner, what are you tossing around, it seems that this year has forgotten even the minimum rules of your life. Hongli saw Yinzhen's tiger face, and was still a little frightened, but after all, he was a spoiled child, and he was only four years old, so he must be unconvinced, so he grabbed the corner of the pillow and looked at Huizhu with a look of grievance.

Yin Zhen's eyebrows were deeply concave, at this time Fang noticed the thing in Hongli's hand, and looked sideways, there were two cotton cushions behind him, one was a boxy red background gold line drawing, and the other was a large cylindrical one, and there were actually things like eyes and nose embroidered on it? Yin Zhen raised his eyebrows, continued to look along Hongli's hand, and knew that Hongli was holding this cylindrical cotton pad, suspicious, and asked Huizhu with his eyes, who knew that Huizhu was preaching to Hongli, and he didn't look at him, so he cleared his throat and asked: "What is this, it's quite comfortable to lean, but it doesn't look like a backrest pillow." ”

Huizhu said without raising her head: "It's just a backrest and a pillow, but it's just a change of shape." Master, the meal is ready, let's use it first. After that, let Hongli sit aside and eat by herself, and she also bowed her head silently and used it. Seeing this, Yin Zhen glanced at Huizhu several times, but didn't say anything, and Xiao Luzi served the cloth and used it.

Then after dinner, Hongli played for a while and was sleepy, Huizhu took Hongli back to the east chamber to sleep, and returned to the upper room, and saw Yinzhen leaning on the kang, holding a yellow scroll book in his hand, but did not look at it, but looked up at the painting scroll on the wall as if thinking about something.

Yin Zhen heard the sound, looked back, and asked casually, "Hongli is asleep." Hye-joo snorted softly, counting as an answer. Yin Zhen thought for a while, and then said: "The painting is framed and hung, it seems that you like this painting very much." When Huizhu heard this, she didn't bother to pay attention to it, Emperor Kangxi rewarded her, can she not make a living? didn't answer a word, directly opened the lid of the eight-treasure box, and ate the fruit candied fruit inside. In fact, since she became pregnant, Huizhu's temper has gradually grown

, emotions are prone to ups and downs, especially people are impatient, which is even more annoying to Huizhu, who is already dissatisfied with Yinzhen.

Yin Zhen didn't know what Huizhu was thinking in his heart, and he couldn't get a reply for a long time, plus the cold treatment of one night, he felt a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't help but be a little angry, staring at Huizhu with gloomy eyes.

After a long time, but seeing that Huizhu was still unconscious, his anger became even more in his heart, and he slapped it on the kang table and said in a deep voice: "Make a character, you have also learned this trick, ah?" Huizhu's heart jumped suddenly, remembering the way Yinzhen was angry before, she unconsciously put down the dates in her hand, shrugged her shoulders slightly, and sat low.

Seeing Huizhu like this, Yinzhen was confident, stood up suddenly, and said fiercely: "Don't squeak yet, okay, don't you say it, I'll say it." You don't want to think that you are pregnant and win people, that day in the palace you actually went to provoke that Lang Shining, so many pairs of eyes staring, you are bold, you are bold, you are bold. Yes, you know how to write in Chinese, you are amazing, you want to show off, right, and go to Lang Shining to defend yourself, hmph, even if you have a long brain, you didn't answer in foreign, otherwise you can't tell what others say. After speaking, as if he was puzzled, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Huizhu, and continued: "Clever, well hidden, I want you to enter the mansion for decades, I only say that you like Western things, and you can know a few simple foreign words, how do you know that your foreign language is so good." ”

Speaking of this, Yin Zhen seemed to remember something, waved his hand and swept the ornaments on the table, crackling and falling to the ground. Xiao Luzi and Su Xin, who were waiting at the door curtain, looked at each other when they heard this, and then rushed into the house, and when they saw that the house was in a mess, they were busy kneeling and knocking: "The slave should die, the master is angry." Yinzhen withdrew his finger, pointed to the doorrail, and said, "Go out, I didn't let you in, you just guarded me outside." Xiao Luzi and Su Xin trembled in horror, secretly glanced at Huizhu who was sitting low, paced, and walked out of the house helplessly.

was interrupted by Xiao Luzi and them, Yinzhen seemed to ease his anger, bypassed the debris on the ground, and when he came to Huizhu, his right hand clasped Huizhu's chin, his eyes were facing each other, and his lips hooked a sneer: "You have been in the mansion for a year, I asked you a word, how did you answer, you know nothing about foreign literature, and you have given up a long time ago." Last month, I also said that I read some foreign books translated in Chinese because I couldn't understand them, and I was sleepy, but what? It's good for you, don't talk about Yangwen, and let Lang Shining say afterwards that it's a pity that you are married, and you are in this country, so it would be better if you didn't get to know you. How? Happy, right? I can't see it, I really can't see it, say, what else is hidden from me? As he spoke, he couldn't help but exert his strength.

Huizhu sighed in pain, and then struggled: "Let go, you don't know if it hurts." After hearing this, Yinzhen slowed down his strength, but he still clasped Huizhu's jaw and spit out the words: "Say." Huizhu secretly scolded the moody madman in her heart, what a big deal, she ran to the fire, but she was still a little afraid of Yinzhen's anger, so she said angrily, and unconsciously shortened her three points: "The concubine has mastered a lot of foreign phrases, and this is all rote memorization, so what Lord Lang said, the concubine guessed by the meaning of the phrase, and the concubine didn't answer in foreign that day, because the concubine couldn't say the complete sentence, she could only listen to a general meaning." ”

After speaking, Huizhu felt that this was too wrongful, and her neck stiffened, and she said stiffly: "Why are you pointing at me, did I bring about the situation that day?" If you don't help solve the siege, forget it, and say that mine is not. Thinking about it, Huizhu felt that it was wrong, the person in front of him was not the husband of an ordinary official eunuch, but Yinzhen, and sorted out his head, regained his composure, and then said: "Master, your words are understood, and it is to keep to yourself." The master came back in court clothes, thinking that he had just finished his errand and was very tired, so he still asked Su Xin to boil water to bathe you. The concubine is pregnant and can't wait, I hope the lord will forgive me. After saying these words in one breath, without waiting for Yinzhen to react, he hurried out of the room, found Su Xin and explained briefly, and hurriedly went to the east wing to stay in the east wing before Yinzhen came out.

At this time, I had just widened my coat, and I heard someone knocking on the door outside, and then.

Xiao Luzi looked stunned and stammered: "Niu Colu Fujin, why don't you go over first, so as not to disturb Brother Hongli." He said that if you don't go over, you will come to you in person, and the little brother is still asleep, do you see this? Huizhu's mouth opened slightly, her chest rose and fell, and she relieved her breath after a while: "Mama Dong takes good care of Hongli, don't let him beat the quilt at night, I still rest in the upper room today." After explaining, he glanced at Xiao Luzi sideways, and left with his feet raised.

Back in the inner room, the broken objects all over the floor had been cleaned up, and the snack box, the tea set on the stove, and the sandalwood stove burning with wisps of white smoke were also placed unharmed, as if they had been placed on the kang table in an orderly manner.

Xiao Luzi looked at the bedroom behind the screen and said in a loud voice: "Master, Niu Co Lu Fujin is back, and the slave will retreat first." After finishing speaking, Xiang Huizhu made a thousand punches and bowed down. Somehow, Huizhu clenched her fists, looked at the flickering candlelight, a little nervous, and was reluctant to enter the bedroom.

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