Chapter 318: Lighting the Lamp

In the blink of an eye, the end of the year is over, and it is another year.

During this period, in the New Year, the frustrated Galdan Tseling was still full of ambition and made a further counterattack on the Qing army, but the Qing army fought bravely, defeated the quasi-army, and finally relieved the siege of Hami in February. Yinzhen Longxin was happy, and ordered the Hami Hui people who fought with the Qing army to be rewarded with 15,000 taels of silver.

However, the hundred-legged insect died but did not stiffen, and Galdance, despite his own setbacks, still wanted to invade Khalkha and expand its power, and fought with the Qing army. At that time, it was also encountered by Simao Tu, a subordinate of Pu'er Prefecture in Yunnan, who raised troops to rejuvenate the country and rebelled, and the Qing government used troops in both places.

Fortunately, by August, Dao Xingguo was arrested and committed suicide, and the Qing government continued to appease the villages around Pu'er, Simao, Yuanjiang, and Xinping, and the rebellion was put down. In the same month, the battle of Guangxian Temple was won, and the vitality of the Dzungar Ministry was greatly damaged, and they could not continue to fight, so they had to send envoys to negotiate peace with the Qing court.

If so, the imperial court showed the prestige of the Heavenly Empire, the civil and military officials had the heart to praise the emperor, and Yinzhen had the heart to accept its good, so he took advantage of the August 22 Lighting Buddha Christmas to set up a banquet in the Old Summer Palace, and chose the word "lighting the lamp" to commemorate the Qing army sacrificed in the war, and also celebrated the prosperity of the Yongzheng Dynasty with the monarch and ministers.

On the evening of the 21st, after dinner, the study room in the bamboo forest courtyard was quiet, only the occasional sound of turning books, and a pot of Zhenjiang cold spring water boiling on the wrought-iron wind stove, making a "gurgling" tumbling and boiling sound.

Seeing the milky white smoke spewing out of the noisy mouth, the lid of the pot jumped straight up, Huizhu estimated that the time was almost up, and hurriedly took the wet handkerchief on the side and put it on the handle, and poured water into the teacup where the tea leaves had been placed. Instantly, a fragrant, mellow smell permeated the entire room.

Yin Zhen looked up from the fold in his hand, looked at Huizhu's movements as comfortable as flowing water, picked up the fold with his hand, leaned back on the back of the chair with a relaxed expression, and said casually: "The technique is becoming more and more proficient, and the fire mastery is also good." ”

"Brewing tea and making tea for the emperor every day, and the emperor guides from the side, and the concubine has practiced this skill." While laughing, Huizhu added a small spoonful of salt to the tea, and walked towards the head case while holding the tea, while muttering: "The concubine added salt to the tea, don't you like it." This is also why you don't listen to persuasion, recently often read the excerpts at night, and then the recent rebound in the sun, you must not stand the heat, so as not to cause the old disease. ”

Yin Zhen stretched out his hand and pressed his eyebrows helplessly a few times, and only after Huizhu finished nagging did he say: "In the past four years of summer, I have rarely been sick. Especially when it was so hot last year, I didn't see a recurrence of my old disease, so I just want to pay a little more attention. You don't have to be nervous every time it's summer, and you've been in charge of the banquet recently, so it's better to leave these trivial things to Xiao Luzi. ”

"That's right!" Huizhu suddenly snorted softly, and he didn't want Yinzhen's words, put down the teacup and said: "Tomorrow's dinner, Xiao Ranzi still has details to tell the concubine, I think he has been waiting in the inner hall for some hours at this time." The concubine went over first and then came back. With that, he walked out of the study.

Yin Zhen looked at the faint dark blue under Huizhu's eyes, frowned, and said: "There have been a lot of things in the past two days, and you haven't slept well at night, so you came over, washed yourself and slept first, and I will go over after I finish dealing with the things in hand." ”

Hearing this, Huizhu, who was about to walk to the threshold, stopped, pouted secretly, and said in her heart: "She also wants to go to bed early, but this is not a habit, Yinzhen sleeps on the side every night." If she slept alone first one night, she would have to wait until Yinzhen went to bed before she fell asleep! ”。

But when she turned around, Huizhu wouldn't say that, only to see her smile slyly, and said: "If the concubine is not supervising the emperor on the side, who knows what time the emperor will stay in the study." After speaking, he didn't wait for Yinzhen to say anything more, and walked out of the study by himself.

Looking at the direction Huizhu left, Yin Zhen shook his head and smiled, a pair of deep eyes were full of undisguised smiles, and the slightly drooping corners of his mouth also hooked up a pleasant arc, boring at night, "Green Xiao Said Net" couldn't ask for it.

On the other side, in the inner hall of the small courtyard, Xiao Ranzi and Ah Xing were muttering and laughing, when they saw Huizhu walking in. Then, Ah Xing opened the tea cup on the small table with a smile, poured a cup of warm tea and held Huizhu, and said, "The master is here, father-in-law, he has been waiting for you for more than half an hour." I saw that my father-in-law had important things to do with his master, and the slave and maid were no longer in the way. "After speaking, the blessed body is to retreat.

For a while, Xiao Ranzi carefully arranged the banquet tomorrow night one by one, and the master and servant discussed some small matters, Xiao Ranzi hesitated and said: "Master, tomorrow night, I really want all the concubines in the garden to attend, that is...... The four new ones are also going to be there? ”

Listening to Xiao Ranzi's extremely reluctant tone, Huizhu smiled, looked at Xiao Ranzi and said, "Don't be reluctant, they have been in this garden for almost a year, and they haven't seen the emperor yet." Of course, this palace is not that kind person, and takes the initiative to introduce them. But in his position, there are some things that he can't help but want. ”

Xiao Ranzi saw the helplessness in Huizhu's words at the end, so he changed the hesitation on Fang Cai's face, picked up the good words with a hippie smile on the side, and said: "What if you let them come, the emperor never remembered them at all." As he spoke, he quietly peeked at Huizhu and continued to say: "Don't look at it, in addition to the master, the emperor has been to which courtyard in the palace, and now the palace concubine in a garden has long become an ornament." ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Huizhu scolded sternly.

Xiao Ranzi was not afraid, he leaned forward with a shy face, showing a flattering look, and said: "The slave is not nonsense, the concubines in this palace and a garden have become decorations in the palace, which is a well-known thing. It's just that the slaves don't say, which one of the top people in the capital is not bright. ”

The facts are indeed as Xiao Ranzi said, Huizhu only said a few words on his face, but Xinhu was rippled by these words.

Since Yongzheng's sudden illness in the fifth year, except for her, Yinzhen has never recruited a palace concubine to sleep, that is, she turned over the sign at the beginning and called someone to go, but it was just a person and nothing else. Later, after Hongli's wedding, Yinzhen didn't even bother to hide people's eyes and ears at the beginning. Therefore, this is also the main reason why she got the title of "concubine".

Thinking at this point, Huizhu couldn't help but lift the corner of the bamboo curtain, looked through the frost-paved courtyard, raised her eyes to stare at the dim room with flickering lights, and ordered: "Let Ah Xing wash the lotus leaves just picked this morning, and vacate the rice soaked in the spring water, and the palace will go to the east chamber to see if Bao'er has rested, and then go over." ”

After explaining, the master and servant went out of the inner hall together, each facing the east and west sides.

Turning to the evening of the next day, the feast of "burning the lamp" kicked off in the Fengsan Selfless Hall near the dormitory of Yinzhen and Huizhu.

It is night, the moon and stars are scarce, the wind is coming, the fragrance of flowers and trees outside the hall and the fragrance of wine in the hall are floating everywhere, making people drunk without drinking; In addition, I heard the sound of silk and bamboo played by the eunuch of the Ping Department on the stage, and saw the famous lotus flowers transplanted in the crystal pots on the white jade foundation stone around me, and I felt a sense of confusion in my heart for the night banquet.

A group of princes and ministers, and ordered the women to put the decorations in their eyes, and the envoys who favored Huizhu too much and harmed its interests could not help but praise it secretly in their hearts.

When everyone was gathering in twos and threes to talk happily, they only heard the palace eunuchs with sharp voices singing and saying one by one from far and near: "The emperor has arrived——, and the concubine has arrived——。 ”

For a long time, the singing harmony was still echoing, and from afar, I saw two kinds of yellow chariots, one deep and one light, coming towards me. Everyone hurriedly smiled, hurriedly got up from their seats, stepped forward and bowed their heads and shouted: "Greetings to the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor!" After a slight pause, he shouted: "Welcome to the concubine Niangniang, Niangniang Chitose Chitose Chitose!" ”

"Flat." A cold, deep voice said softly.

Hearing this, everyone straightened up, and the moment they raised their eyes, a tall middle-aged man in a bright yellow dragon robe with a cold face, and a woman standing side by side with a gentle smile came into view. In this way, with a rough glance, everyone felt that the two of them were shining brightly and could not be forced to look. After leaving, everyone retracted their gaze, bowed their heads and took two steps back, and gave way in the middle to welcome the two into the upper hall.

Huizhu walked to the phoenix seat with a little anxiety, looked down at the lifelike golden phoenix on the throne that seemed to be about to hover in the air, and her heart jumped suddenly, and her subconscious feet were about to move under the imperial steps, but she didn't notice that her wrist was shackled, and then she didn't react quickly, and the person was already sitting safely on the phoenix.

Seeing this, there was an uproar in the hall, and then there was a strange silence between them, and Fang staggered his eyes without a trace, and continued to laugh appropriately.

"Your Majesty!" Huizhu retracted her hand and shouted with some annoyance.

Yin Zhen picked up the wine glass in front of the case, his eyes swept over the people of different colors, and he casually glanced at Huizhu and said: "There is no table under the steps, and there is no vacancy for the concubine seat, if you don't sit here, where else can you go?" After speaking, he turned his head, raised his wine glass to face everyone, and said, "I thank ...... with wine."

Huizhu tilted her head slightly, looking at Yinzhen, who looked like an emperor who was not angry and arrogant, and her silver teeth were gritted "Zizi". She obviously arranged the Zhai seat under the royal seat, but now not only is the Zhai seat gone, but the phoenix seat has also appeared on the royal step out of thin air! You don't have to think about it to know who made this arrangement.

But at this point, Huizhu only scolded a few words in her heart, and she no longer stuck to these dead principles, and greeted the palace concubine and the concubine with a gentle and distant smile, and from time to time she received a strong gaze from someone else.

However, soon after the three rounds of wine, the banquet arrived**, and Huizhu also came to be interested, and sat on the top seat, so he watched everyone present tributes, objects, and albums to Yinzhen to congratulate the "Burning Lamp" night banquet.

Since this banquet is held in the name of the Buddha Christmas, the things presented are even related to the "Buddha", but due to the hurry of time, the things presented by everyone are nothing more than golden Buddhas, jade Buddhas, Buddha statues and other things. After watching it for half an hour, I couldn't help but feel bored, so the monarch and the ministers only praised each other a few words to meet the situation.

At this time, the palace eunuch presented a thing from the outside, Huizhu originally intended to be interested, but suddenly heard the sound of surprise from the end of the hall, but also attracted a slightly curious gaze from the head, and couldn't help but admire.