On this day, the winter snow was coming, and Ruyi was greedy to see the scenery of the white plum in the snow, so he helped his heart to come out together. The winter is cold and cold, and the white plums in the garden are lonely and open. In this quiet and less crowded afternoon, the petals bloom enchantingly. He smiled and said: "The little master is really, others are looking for plum blossoms in the snow, they are all looking for red plums, and the little master wants to see white plums." The slave didn't believe it, the white plum was hidden in the snow, and she could only see the black and pressed branches, what was there to see. ”

Ruyi wore a cloak of beaded brocade and green feathers, stretched out her hand to catch a little flying snowflake, and said: "The white snow and red plum naturally have a bright and clear beauty, which is admired by people." But the white plum is hidden in the snow, only by the fragrance of flowers and the cold to the bone, the beauty of the world, if not carefully distinguished, what is the meaning of easy to get? ”

A mischievous smile flashed in his mind: "The slave thinks that the little master likes this kind of subtlety. ”

Ruyi straightened the fluffy hairball on the neckline, and said with a smile: "If you don't distinguish many things, you can only see the snow pressing the black branches, and naturally you don't feel beautiful. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a clear female voice sounding behind her: "Concubine Xian's words won my heart." ”

Ruyi turned around, but saw that in the snowy glass, a beautiful woman Ying Ying wearing a red gorilla felt cloak in the yellow flakes of digging cloud goose was standing under the plum tree, but it was Shu Concubine. She smiled and said angrily: "It turned out to be Sister Shu." ”

Shu Concubine put down her hood, revealing a head full of jade pieces and silverware, and in the cold and snow of winter, she looked more and more noble and cold, with a lonely and noble look like ice and snow. is just like her, at a glance it is extremely gorgeous and fresh, and after getting along, I know that she is such a lonely character, just like this winter snow and cold flowers.

Concubine Shu bowed slightly and said, "If Concubine Xian Niangniang doesn't mind, you can call me by my real name, Yihuan." I can also call a sister, you don't have to be 'Niangniang' to 'Niangniang', it's so cheesy. ”

Ruyi saw that she spoke directly, and she liked it more in her heart, so she said, "That's naturally good." ”

Shu Concubine said with a smile: "Everyone in the harem is saying that the emperor let my sister out of the cold palace, but he has rarely visited, never dined with his sister, and never called his sister to sleep once. Everyone in the palace is talking behind their backs, I don't know where the emperor put his sister? ”

Ruyi saw that she was undisguised, so she also said: "What is the emperor's heart, how can we speculate." ”

Nearby, there is a large plum blossom Shu branch standing proudly, the branch bears the veins and veins, and the petals of the stamen appear more and more icy and clean, not stained by dust and mud.

Shu Concubine pulled a string of silver tassels on her sideburns, and said slowly: "Others think so, but I'm not." I've been thinking that Concubine Shen used to be so favored, but now that she is sick these days, the emperor doesn't care about it. And let my sister out, I didn't get close to my sister much, is it because of the closer home. I think the emperor values his sister more. ”

Ruyi smiled faintly: "Where does my sister Fang Cai come from?" ”

Concubine Shu said: "I had lunch with the emperor." Her smile was a little secret: "The emperor's favorite plum blossom pot at lunchtime is a clear soup cooked with white plums." But I didn't want me to go to the imperial garden, but I saw that my sister was so coincidental and enjoyed the plum blossoms alone. ”

Ruyi's heart moved slightly, as if someone's hand was plucking the strings of her heart, but the look on her face was very light: "There are only plum blossoms in the cold winter, and it's too simple to get lucky." ”

Concubine Shu smiled and said nothing, but said: "Sister, don't you think this snow-white plum is extremely beautiful, but the black branches are really too eye-catching?" If it were me, I would have covered it with white paint, and it would be clean. ”

A cluster of plum branches is in the wind, the wind blows and moves, and the wind is graceful, like ripples. Ruyi stretched out her hand and broke off a branch of white plum in her hand: "It turns out that my sister is not only quick to talk, but also decisive." It's just that...... Everything is good if you are not in a hurry. ”

Concubine Shu smiled lightly and got up to leave.

He was a little worried: "Why did the little master talk so much to Concubine Shu?" We don't know what she's going to do. ”

"Bottom?" Ruyi looked at her bright red back in the snow, "Concubine Shu is the person recommended by the Queen Mother, and she is proud of herself and does not want to associate with the concubines in the palace." With such a detail, even if you say a few more words, it doesn't hurt. She turned around and walked out of the garden with her heart, but saw Ling Yunche holding a bunch of broken plum blossoms, standing outside.

Ruyi was quite surprised: "Aren't you guarding Kunning Palace now?" How is it here? ”

Ling Yunche saluted like a ceremony: "Kunning Palace is full of offerings, and plum blossoms are inserted into the bottle every day, so they are all Weichen who comes." He quietly glanced at Ruyi, and still said respectfully: "Today, I heard Concubine Xian Niangniang talking inside, so I waited outside the garden, hoping to say hello to Niangniang." ”

Ruyi stared with a smile: "There is only this one door for Meiyuan to enter and exit, you specially waited, I don't think it's as simple as asking for peace." ”

Ling Yunche was a little embarrassed: "I was still seen through by my mother." ”

"If you have something to say, say it."

Ling Yunche hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and said, "There is a palace maid named Wei Yanwan in the flower room, and she came to find Weichen......

Ruyi chuckled, looked at him and said, "I'm just a little better, so many people have found you?" If you help them one by one, how many people can you help? ”

Although Ruyi said with a smile, Ling Yunche couldn't help but blush, and said, "Yes." But she ......"

Ruyi suddenly understood: "But the person who made you drunk and depressed for her that day? ”

Ling Yunche was said to be thoughtful, so he had to confess: "Yinwan is my countryman, and she entered the palace with me on an errand. Although she was more ambitious, she left me to fly high that day, but by mistake, she was finally demoted to the flower house as an errand. The flower room worked hard day and night, and she knew her mistake and never dared to come to me. It wasn't until today that I was on an errand in Kunning Palace, and I saw the pine branches she sent to clear the offerings in front of the errand in the flower house, that I realized that she had suffered so much. Her hand...... It's all chilblains, because it's not a job to serve people, so it's also thin and cold. Yan Wan...... She is the most beautiful. As he spoke, his face felt a little more pity and pity.

Ruyi interrupted him and said, "As soon as she complained, you forgot the pain of being abandoned by her in the past?" ”

Ling Yunche hurriedly shook his head and said, "Concubine Xian Niangniang Mingjian, it's not that Weichen is soft-hearted. It's just that...... It's just that she's too pitiful. She kept crying, saying that she knew she had done something wrong that day, so she didn't have the face to come to see me. She ......"

"I didn't have the face to see you, but after all, I saw you, and I said so many touching words. So, what did you promise her, and you came to ask for this palace? ”

Ling Yunche was very embarrassed: "She didn't mean to let Weichen come to beg Niangniang. It's just that in the huge deep palace, the only thing that Weichen can ask for is Niangniang. Weichen just wondered if Niangniang could do Weichen a favor and transfer her out of the flower room for an easier errand. ”

Ruyi pondered for a moment: "Do you really think so?" ”

Yun Che said: "Yin Wan didn't dare to ask for anything, just begged not to have frostbite on her hands, and she was satisfied." ”

"It sounds like it's just a small wish, and it's not hard to satisfy." Ruyi raised her face and breathed in the cold air that penetrated her lungs, "It's just that it's almost the end of the year, and there is no shortage of people in the flower room." You bring her the words of the palace, and ask her to be at ease on an errand, and when spring begins, the palace will change a good place for her. ”

Ling Yunche couldn't help but show a little joy, and said with a thousand words: "Then Weichen thank you Niangniang." ”

Ruyi couldn't help laughing: "Seeing that you are so happy, I want to come to what Wei Yanwan said today, it is very powerful and accurate." So he didn't look at him, but walked away.

When I returned to the palace, I saw the boss in the warm pavilion offering a bunch of green plums. The faint jade-like color is crystal clear and translucent, and the heart of the flower is white. Although it is not as beautiful as the red plum and the white plum is clear, it is fragrant and rich, especially the ordinary plum fragrance. At this time, the room has been wiped by the little eunuchs The windows are bright and clean, the fragrance of flowers and the undried water vapor blend, coupled with the charcoal fire in the hall, the heating is quiet and quiet, and it looks more and more elegant and fresh, and the Chinese people are drunk.

Ruyi took off her cloak and asked, "Who sent the green plum, the color is so good?" ”

The little palace maid Ling Zhizi carefully wiped the coral glaze pastel flower and bird pattern porcelain vase for green plums and said: "Not long after the little lord went out, the emperor ordered the princess to send it. ”

Ruyi stared at it for a while, and said with a smile: "Then you go and change to a plain white porcelain bottle." The green plum is so plain and elegant, it is too tacky to use a colorful vase. ”

Lingzhi stuck out her tongue embarrassedly: "The slave just saw that this bottle was happy and the color was lively, so I used it." ”

"You want to use this bottle for flower arrangement, it looks good, but it is a disappointment to the emperor." Seeing that Lingzhi had gone out, he smiled and said, "The emperor also has a heart for the little master, but we can't see through it for a while." ”

Ruyi stroked the green plum and said with a smile: "If you can't see through it, don't look at it first, there is such a good green plum, if you don't appreciate it carefully, it's a waste." ”

After the New Year, there is the Lantern Festival, and in February, the most prosperous festival is "the second dragon raises its head in the first month of February". According to the custom, the legend of the dragon head festival originated in the era of Fuxi, Fuxi "heavy agriculture mulberry, farming fields", every year on the second day of February, "the queen mother sends rice, the royal driver ploughs". When the emperor was in power, he also attached great importance to it. On this day, he personally went to the Xiannong altar with the queen to worship. When she came back, the queen was in high spirits, so she ordered someone to hold a family banquet in the Changchun Palace, and invited the emperor to welcome the spring together. Since the early death of her beloved son, the queen has been depressed, and rarely shows her happy face, this time she took the initiative to invite, and the emperor also felt that the queen rarely had such feelings, so he also agreed, and let the imperial dining room make a lot of the queen's favorite dishes to send. The emperor attaches so much importance to it, how can the concubines not be fed, so Hui Guifei started and invited the concubines in the palace to welcome the queen together.

The emperor has always loved to be lively, so naturally there is nothing he doesn't like. So even the lowly Xiu agreed, and even the sick concubines called them one by one. Although the queen mother did not come in person, she also asked Fujia to seal a large drawer of ejiao walnut paste to nourish the queen's vitality, and gave two handfuls of boy Ruyi, hoping that the queen would have another prince as soon as possible.

With such a heart, the queen is naturally grateful. Even with the emperor present, he couldn't help but touch his heart, and said softly: "The queen can rest assured, in the future, except for the fifteenth day of the new year, I will come to accompany the queen every ten and fifth days, and I hope that the queen can give birth to a white and chubby little brother for me." ”

Ruyi sat in the first seat in the west, and the wine was already in her ears. The emperor hated that he was a concubine, and he hoped to have a son-in-law, so although he had the third and fourth elder brothers, and Hailan was pregnant, he still couldn't make up for his single-minded yearning. Therefore, the loss of Prince Duanhui can be said to be a great misfortune or a blessing for the queen, who has always been favored by many queens.

The Spring Festival gift given by the emperor to the queen was a box of pearls from the East China Sea, and the queen hurriedly got up and thanked her: "The pearls are precious, not to mention the number of boxes, the concubines think of the hard work of the pearl divers, and they dare not accept it." ”

The Emperor took her hand and said, "I know that you have always been thrifty and do not like luxury. But no matter how precious and rare this box of East China Sea pearls is, it can't compare to the weight of the queen in my heart. Why should the queen care about the number of boxes? ”

In this way, even if the queen has always paid attention to grooming, she did not feel that the tears in her eyes were touched, she thanked her with tears, but she saw that the emperor instructed Li Yu to send the small red brocade box to each concubine. Concubine Hui and Concubine Chun were the first to open it, but they saw that it was the same pearl of the East China Sea as the queen. Concubine Chun is still happy, but Concubine Hui said coquettishly: "The emperor is so partial, just give the queen a box, but there is only one for us, stingy." ”

The emperor smiled and said, "Although it is given to you less, it is also the same as I treat you." ”

Ruyi opened the brocade box and saw that it was really bright, huge and round, better than a candle. When Shen Concubine opened it, the concubine next to her suddenly said "ouch", and said with a smile: "Our are all pearls of the East China Sea, what is in your brocade box?" ”