Ruyi was stunned, and immediately recognized that the figure that seemed to be fished out of the water was Ah Ji. Ruyi hurriedly asked a few little palace maids to help her into her room. Green Mark just boiled the hot water and came in, and hurriedly poured the water into the cypress bath bucket, and Ruyi stripped off her soaked clothes, and moved the whole person into the bath bucket to soak.

Ah Ji felt the boiling hot water around him, and then he woke up with a groan, and when he saw Ruyi beside him, tears immediately fell, and he called: "Little master." Ruyi Yibi instructed Green Mark to add ginger, calamus and rice wine to the water, and Yibi reached into the water and rubbed her arm for her, Fang said: "Isn't it six hours?" Why did you come back so soon? ”

Ah Zhen's face couldn't tell whether it was water or tears, and he only cried: "It was said that the emperor went to the queen's mother for dinner, and when he saw the slave and maid kneeling there pitiful, he mentioned it to the queen's mother." The queen mother was kind enough to let the slave and maid come back. ”

Ruyi said: "Don't cry yet. Hurry up and warm up, I'll put some medicine on your leg. It must have hurt in my legs after kneeling for so long. She got up and returned to the hall, silently turned on the wick, and listened to the rain outside, but after a while, she was a little surprised when she saw Xin Xin pushing the door in: "Why did you come back?" ”

I was a little embarrassed, and said for a moment: "Concubine Hui Guifei read the "Buddha Mother Sutra" copied by the little master, and said that the little master was perfunctory and did not write carefully, and he was not sincerely punished. ”

Ruyi sighed: "Then what does she want?" ”

She held her breath and said: "Concubine Hui said that she wants the little master to re-transcribe it a hundred times, and she will go to Changchun Palace tomorrow to ask An Qian to send it to Xianfu Palace." Ruyi condensed slightly, and said, "It's okay, I'll copy it a hundred more times." ”

Looking at Ruyi's expression, he said in a low voice: "Actually, in fact, Concubine Hui didn't read the Buddhist scriptures copied by the little master at all, and she would not be satisfied with how the little master copied her, and it was obvious that she was deliberately trying to make things difficult for the little master." ”

Ruyi smiled indifferently: "Isn't that expected?" What did she want for Buddhist scriptures? It's just that I have toiled and tired. ”

She said no more, got up and went to the desk, dipped her pen in ink, and transcribed it in turn: "For the sake of Mei Guiren's pregnancy, she has been angry a lot, and if I don't tame like this, I will fall into her handle." ”

After hesitating for a moment, he still said, "But the concubine is indeed excessive." ”

Ruyi smiled faintly, and said lightly: "Ah Ji has no measure, she wants to discipline Ah Ji." She herself has lost her proportion, and I will let her know what it means to be within the boundary. ”

I watched her pick up the pen and write it immediately, and was not surprised: "Isn't the little master going to copy the Buddhist scriptures?" How did you write a poem by someone else? ”

Ruyi said: "Copying Buddhist scriptures is just small, and this is the most important thing." She whispered a few words in her ear and smiled knowingly: "The slave obeys." ”

While the two were talking, San Bao had already brought Imperial Doctor Xu over. Ah Zhen also changed into clean clothes, and was helped by the green mark, and came over tremblingly. Ruyi said: "I'm tired of Imperial Doctor Xu, take a look at this girl for the palace." ”

Imperial Physician Xu agreed, then asked for a pulse for Ah Zhen, and quickly said: "The girl is drenched in heavy rain and has a cold, and now she has a fever, so she needs to be carefully recuperated." Now the most important thing is to prevent the onset of high fever, so as not to burn out the body. Weichen will prescribe a prescription and send medicine, and ask the people in the little lord's palace to quickly decoct the medicine for the girl and eat it. ”

"What about the knee injury?"

Imperial Physician Xu said respectfully: "It's just a traumatic injury, it's okay to take some medicine." As he spoke, he took out two bottles of medicinal powder from the medicine box, "Take it internally and apply it externally, it will get better faster." ”

Ruyi thanked him, and then instructed Sanbao Haosheng to send Imperial Doctor Xu out, took the medicine he left, and said in a calm tone: "Roll up your trouser legs." ”

Ah Zhen rolled up his trouser legs, revealing his bruised and purple knees, and the most serious part was broken flesh and drenched with bright red blood. Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief and applied the medicinal powder to her. Ah Zhen couldn't help whimpering: "Little master, the slave is so wronged!" ”

Ruyi slowly sprinkled medicinal powder on the wound and said lightly: "What are you wronged about?" ”

Ah Zhen cried: "Concubine Hui tortures the slave maid like this, just to lose the face of the little master. It doesn't matter if the slave is wronged, but the little master ......"

Ruyi put the medicine bottle on the table and slammed it down: "Of course it doesn't matter if you are wronged, because the grievances you suffer are all self-inflicted and deserved!" ”

Ah Zhen was stunned for a moment, as if in disbelief, and cried loudly: "Why does the little master think that the slave maid is? In the past, Lianxin's words were offensive, and she contradicted the little master several times, and she was neither yin nor yang, and the slave and maid had looked down on her for a long time. Yesterday she pointed out that the marriage was glorious, and today she was tortured, and the slave was happy for the little master, and she was revenge for the little master to taunt her a few words! ”

Like a wildfire burning in her heart, Ruyi scolded with a calm face: "Avenge me, or dig a pit for me and jump down?" I have repeatedly warned you that the palace is no better than the outside, so you are so arrogant and willful, full of nonsense. This is the harem, if you say a word wrong, you will be beaten to death, and you have a few tongues to fill your own life! ”

Ah Zhen looked at Ruyi tremblingly, and cried: "Even if the slave maid is not, he is still loyal to the little master!" ”

Ruyi was so angry that she couldn't speak. He hurriedly said: "Sister Aji, the little master is just to intercede for you, but he was repeatedly embarrassed by the concubine Niangniang, copying the "Buddha Mother Sutra" a hundred times is not enough, but also a hundred more times. ”

Ah Zhen said timidly: "The slave is just not convinced, not convinced, in the past, when the little master and she were both side blessings, why do you have to step on the little master's head for everything?" It's not that the little lord can't compete with her! ”

Ruyi was so angry that her face turned red, and the armor in her hand made a dull sound on the red sandalwood table. She said angrily: "You only know how to fight in everything, and you only know how to come out!" But I never thought that everything should be done in moderation, there are advances and retreats! You want to fight, but you can't fight for others, and you fill yourself in! ”

Ah Zhen cried discouragedly, and when he saw that he was embarrassed, he brought a bowl of ginger soup to Ah Zhen: "My sister is not good, drink the ginger soup and scatter it." ”

Ah Ji was about to drink with his hearty hand, but Ruyi became more and more unhappy: "Let her drink it herself!" Ah Zhen flattened his mouth and didn't dare to cry anymore, so he had to take it and drink it himself.

Ruyi said sternly: "Wait a minute, drink the medicine and go to sleep." This is the last time, and next time you will have to say whatever you want, and I won't be able to protect you. ”

Ah Ji lowered his eyes and sobbed silently and went out.

Ruyi's heart was disturbed, and she dragged a tube of tortoiseshell purple pen and began to copy Buddhist scriptures. He said cautiously: "The little master should also be hungry, why don't you pass on dinner!" ”

Ruyi didn't raise his head: "I'm full of gas, so there's no need for it." ”

This sulking is a night. Ruyi copied the Buddhist scriptures late, and listened to the cool rain all night, mixed with the sound of the rain hitting the plantains, which was particularly sad, and he didn't sleep well this night anyway.

Ruyi got up and was depressed, and copied the remaining Buddhist scriptures from last night and handed them to Yi Xin, and said, "Go ahead." ”

Seeing that the rain had stopped outside, he sent Yonghuang to the study room first. Bypassing the Shang Shufang to the long street, I knew early in the morning that the emperor was resting at the Mei nobles last night, so he deliberately walked around to the outside of Yonghe Palace. Sure enough, under the twilight sky, there was the sound of eunuchs' thin-soled boots rubbing the bluestone brick slabs in the distance. A slippery palace lamp is like a bright star, surrounded by the Ming and Huang Imperial Palaces, followed by countless honor guards, from the quiet palace wall sandwich road rushed forward.

I only walked with my head bowed and walked in front of the emperor. The leading eunuch in front of him reprimanded: "Who? Don't you see the royal driver here? ”

He was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down and said: "The slave and maid of Yanxi Palace are heartbroken, and she has no intention of offending the holy driver, and she also asks the emperor to forgive her sins." ”

The emperor was still kind: "At this time, did you just send Yonghuang to Brother's office?" ”

"Yes." The slave maid originally wanted to go to the gate of Yonghe Palace to greet the emperor. ”

The emperor said, "What's the matter?" ”

Hanging his head in his heart, he said respectfully: "Concubine Xian Niangniang said that today is the tide viewing day on August 18, and the emperor once talked to the little lord about yearning for the tide viewing scenery in Haining, and regretted that he couldn't go." The little master specially asked the slave and maid to hand over a thing to the emperor. ”

The emperor nodded, and Wang Qin stepped forward to take it from Yi Xin's hand, and held it in both hands and presented it to the emperor. The emperor opened it and took a look, but saw a few lines of hairpins on a piece of jade paper: "The waves roared in August, and the head was several feet high and touched the mountain." But he went into the gate of the sea, and rolled up the sand like a snowdrift. That is Liu Yuxi's "Waves and Sands", which is written about the spectacular scenery of the Qiantang River tide on August 18.

There was a warm and clear smile in the eyes of the emperor's bright and cold stars, which was what he had told Ruyi, the yearning for the Qianjiang frenzy. But she remembered that in the early morning of August 18, she wrote to him the wave of the river one by one. There is also a "Buddha Mother Sutra" in the lower part of the paper, and the emperor said gently: "How can there be a "Buddha Mother Sutra"? ”

He said in his heart: "The little master said that although the Qianjiang tide is galloping with thousands of horses and its momentum is incomparable, it will inevitably damage the people, and I often hear that some people have been swept into the river. Therefore, the little master deliberately copied an article of the "Buddha Mother Sutra", wanting to use the Buddha's mother's compassion to favor the people. ”

The emperor was very pleased, and said, "In this way, I will accept it." Wang Qin, the "Buddha Mother Sutra" copied by Concubine Xian was offered in front of the shrine in the Yangxin Temple, and there was no need to take it down this month. ”

Wang Qin agreed, knelt sideways on the side of the road, and watched the royal car with respect on his face, before he showed a happy smile.

When she returned to the palace, Ruyi had already invited An back from the Changchun Palace, leaning under the long window to pick up the newly delivered white chrysanthemum buds. The buds had not yet opened, with a faint cyan color, like jade. Ruyi picked one by one, letting the quiet fragrance permeate her fingers.

He smiled and said, "What is the little master busy with?" ”

Ruyi smiled, like a faintly blooming white chrysanthemum: "Pick some white chrysanthemum buds to make a pillow and give Yonghuang a pillow, you can see clearly." ”

He moved the small pestle and sat beside Ruyi, helping to choose together: "Why did the little master suddenly have this interest?" ”

"When I came back from Changchun Palace, Concubine Hui didn't say anything to me, I knew that you had done a good job."

He lowered his eyebrows and said respectfully: "Yes." The emperor offered the little master's "Buddha Mother Sutra" in front of the shrine in the Heart Raising Temple, and the slave only mentioned it in front of the concubine, and the concubine was silent. Although she was annoyed, she still asked the slave to send all the Buddhist scriptures to the Baohua Hall to burn. ”

Ruyi showed a smile of expectation and said, "The emperor likes everything, can she still be picky?" ”

He said worriedly: "The little lord didn't tell the emperor and concubine about making things difficult for you, and he was already merciful." ”

"I just want to warn her, and I don't want to fight with her. Again, enough is enough. She put the selected white chrysanthemum into the blue and gold blessing soft pillow and asked, "How was Ah Ji last night?" Does it burn badly? ”

I thought for a while and said, "After taking the medicine prescribed by Imperial Doctor Xu, I burned badly in the first half of the night, and I kept asking for water to drink, and it was much quieter in the second half of the night." ”

Ruyi stared for a moment, and sighed worriedly: "Heart, have I spoiled Ah Ji all these years?" ”

Pondering the words and sentences, he said slowly: "Sister Ah Zhen is the little master's companion, and the little master should love her." ”

Ruyi twisted the white chrysanthemum on her fingertips and rubbed it slowly, the fragrant juice was stained with the fine white fingers, and she muttered: "Ah Ji has also reached the age of marriage, I think ......"

Yi Xin showed a sweet smile: "Sister Ah Ji is so blessed." ”

Ruyi sighed and said categorically: "It's not that I don't want to keep her, it's just that Ah Zhen's temperament can't be tolerated in the palace." It's better to take advantage of the youth and send it out of the palace to send the matchmaker. She thought for a while, "Ah Ji has been with me for all these years, and he must be heartfelt in marriage, and he can't do evil." When my mother enters the palace one day, I have to entrust her to inquire outside and arrange a good family for Ah Zhen. ”

I was a little surprised: "Didn't the little master want to point out a guard on an errand in front of the emperor to Ah Zhen?" ”

Ruyi was stunned, shook her head and said: "I originally planned to do so, I could have pointed out that a guard who was on an errand in the palace was the best, even if it was a second-class shrimp and third-class shrimp (1), there would always be a day, and I also wanted her to be by my side for a long time." But her temperament, if she is still involved in the palace, she will be in trouble after all. ”

He said thoughtfully: "The little master still plans for Sister Aji, if you marry an official who is ready to go out, even if you go outside for a few years, after all, it is the status of the main room, and it is indispensable to be rich." ”

Ruyi bowed her head slightly, and glanced approvingly: "You are right. ”

Before the words fell, I only heard the door of the palace clang, and a blue figure bypassed the rosewood carved magnolia and blue yarn cupboard, and went straight in and said: "Little master, little master, please don't let the slave go out, the slave doesn't want to get married, and I don't want to leave the little master!" ”

Ruyi didn't expect Ah Ji to get up from illness, but she listened outside, and she was startled, and said with a sinking face: "It's getting more and more unruly!" ”

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Notes: (1) Second-class shrimp Third-class shrimp: refers to second-class guards and third-class guards.