Chapter Ninety-Nine: Seventeen Elder Brothers

I made up my mind, ignored his whimpering, and continued walking towards my quarters. Suddenly, my head was covered by an umbrella again.

The little brother actually picked up the umbrella again and covered me under the umbrella again. "I don't believe that anyone can live without an umbrella for the rest of their lives! Master, I'm going to call you today, what are you going to do? The little brother wiped the rain or tears on his face, and said to me with a firm face.

"Whatever you want!" I don't look at him anymore and just concentrate on my path - from here it is still far from my residence, and I don't believe that he, a pampered brother since childhood, can hold on to his tiptoe with an umbrella for so long! Thinking of this, I quickened my pace even more, and I was bent on dumping him.

"Ahh The other person had short calves and gradually couldn't keep up with my steps, and I dragged him to the ground carelessly.

"How?" I looked at him lying on the ground in embarrassment, not only did not comfort him, but sarcastically said: "In the end, it's a brother, I can't even endure this hardship, I think you should hurry back and change your clothes and rest!" ”

"Don't you think about it!" When he heard my words, he endured the pain and got up from the ground - I realized that his hands and knees were broken, and he was dripping with blood: "Brother Ben is what he says, I must send you back with an umbrella today, you wait for me!" ”

I was about to say something more to ask him to give up, but I couldn't say anything when the words came to my mouth - Zhang Xiaoying, are you irrational enough to torture a child with your past?

Seeing that he still insisted on walking behind me with an umbrella and would fall again at any time, I unconsciously slowed down.

For the first time in my life, I gave up on my persistence - but I couldn't believe that my persistence would lose to a child one day!

"I'm here, you can go back!" I stood under the eaves of my house and ordered him to be evicted again. In fact, with his umbrella playing method, he drenched himself into a soup chicken, not to mention, I was still drenched all over. Alas, I don't know what this little brother thinks in his heart, he is so stubborn, and I really have a fight with me when I was young.

"Have you arrived?" The little brother was still in a daze, probably because he was stupid for the rain, "Then since you have arrived, shouldn't you thank Brother Ben for sending you back?" ”

"......" is really stinky and beautiful at a young age, he obviously forced me to let him send it, okay? I kept telling myself in my heart - don't be like him, he's just a child, and if you are like him, you'll be inferior to him!

The little brother waited for a long time and didn't see my answer, and probably knew that I didn't have the slightest gratitude for his forced buying and selling, so I had to step down the steps myself: "Forget it, Brother Ben doesn't want to take advantage of a palace maid!" But you have to remember, my name is Yinli, ranked seventeenth, and from today onwards, I will be your benefactor! ”

Seventeen Elder Brother? The seventeenth elder brother who later helped Yongzheng implement drastic reforms in the imperial court? I looked at his milky little baby, and I couldn't help but have a feeling of time out of time - I actually stood in front of history to see this famous minister of the Qianlong Dynasty, but I couldn't connect the eight-sided exquisite King Guojun (later the prince) with the milk doll standing in front of me now.

"How old are you?" It should be ten years old, right?

Probably my tone had already been unconsciously mixed with a little contempt, and the seventeenth elder brother took a sensitive step back and thought for a long time: "I-I'm thirteen, and Huang Ama said that I am already a man!" ”

"Ten-three-!" I dragged out my voice, clearly not believing his words.

"Soon—soon, just a few months." Seventeenth Elder Brother's voice was obviously lacking in confidence, "Let me tell you, don't underestimate Brother Ben, I even beat a wolf last year!" Even my emperor Ama praised me for my bravery! "The seventeenth elder brother is probably accustomed to the habitual mode of thinking that as long as he stamps anything with the seal of his emperor Ama, it is equivalent to concluding this habitual mode of thinking.

Seventeenth elder brother, you have brought out your emperor Ama to strengthen your courage is very inauthentic, is there a kind of fox and fake tiger meaning? "How many months is that missing?" I'm so bad that I have to squeeze his lies straight.

"Huh? A few months? Seventeen's voice slowly lowered, and it took a long time before he whispered, "Ten-eleven months." ”

"Eleven months!" I really admire your guts, eleven months is still a little bit close, you are only twelve years old at all! "Then you're a lot younger than I am, at least—" A year and a half. But you can pretend, and I'm even more able to pretend when I look like this, "Three and a half years old!" ”

In fact, probably because of the boy's slow development, Brother Seventeen looks less than ten years old now, and I say that it is polite to say that he is three and a half years older than him.

"Alright, alright." I waited for him for a long time and couldn't wait for his answer, afraid that if he didn't go back to change his clothes, he would catch a cold and affect a large group of minions, so I had to remind: "The seventeenth master wants the slave to repay the favor, there will be time in the future, it's not too early, the master should go back quickly and don't let his subordinates worry." ”

I saw that he was still hesitant to leave, so I immediately hit the railway while it was hot: "The slave and maid send the seventeenth master!" "With a bend of his legs and a flick of his handkerchief, he finally sent this awkward child out of the door." Go slowly! "Just don't come again.

"Sister!" When the young lady heard my voice, she also came out of the house: "Which palace is that the little eunuch?" Is it really bothering him to send his sister back? ”

"Eunuch?" I looked at Qing Niang funny - what kind of eyes are you looking at at this time? This momentum, this domineering appearance, if you were a eunuch, you wouldn't have been beaten to death sooner! "This is the seventeenth elder brother, you don't talk nonsense about eunuchs, be careful of being heard by him!" As I spoke, I wiped my hair with the bath towel in the young lady's hand, and turned around and entered the house.

"Sister, there is a sentence I don't know whether to say or not." Qing Niang suddenly wanted to speak and stopped.

"You're saying I shouldn't be so close to an elder brother in the palace and let him send me back, right?" I looked at Qingniang with a look of how do you know, and continued: "My good sister, I know that you are for my good, and I also know that it is not appropriate to do this. Don't worry, today's event is exceptional, and I promise it won't happen a second time, okay? ”

When the young lady saw that I said everything she was going to say, she couldn't help but admire me even more: "Sister, I'm doing this for your good, and you also know that we slaves-"

"I understand." I didn't want to listen to her words about herself after being educated in slavery, so I hurriedly changed the topic and said, "How is Ke'er? Is it better? ”

"The imperial doctor prescribed two doses of medicine, and it was much better after taking it, at least the fever has subsided!" Qing Niang suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, a little eunuch in the imperial dining room asked me to pass you a letter saying that he is a distant relative of yours. As she spoke, the young lady immediately handed me the letter on the table.

Joke, will our relatives of the Niu family be eunuchs, or will they be the ones who receive the drudgery in the imperial dining room? I'm afraid that it is not the little eunuch who will deliver the letter, but-

When I opened the letter, I saw only a few words on it: "Yangzhou is in a hurry, too hasty, and it is too late to understand one or two, but I want to see the whole picture of the white horse, be careful!" ”

This letter seems bullshit to others, but I understand: Yangzhou refers to all the unspeakable things I did in Yangzhou, and I don't know that it refers to me Ama - he is threatening me, threatening me to see him at the White Horse Temple, be cautious - otherwise I will be ruined and die without a place to be buried!

I unconsciously shook my back, and my hand kept shaking—did it come? What do I have to pay for destroying the Wang family in the first place? Brother Jiu, I know that you will not let me go in the end, but I didn't expect that my every move in the palace is under your control!

"Qingniang, that little eunuch—oh no, did my distant cousin say anything?" I forced myself to calm down - it is a blessing or a curse, it is a disaster that cannot be avoided, and the only thing I have to do except take one step at a time is not to mess with myself.

"He said that he was free in the afternoon three days later, so you should go and see him when you have time!" Qingniang doesn't know why, but I'm not happy that I have another relative in the palace.

"Got it, just take good care of your guest sister, I'm tired, I'm going to rest." Three days, three more days, I don't want to do anything for these three days, I just want to wait quietly.