The emperor's own small study in the Palace of Nourishing Hearts is at the end of the Xinuan Pavilion. Although the place is not large, it is elegantly furnished and solemn, and the windows are bright and clean. The shelves full of books were neatly arranged, all of which the emperor loved to read. There are more than a dozen wall bottles hanging sparsely on the east board wall, with dragon patterns, Coats, eight immortals, pine, bamboo, plum, reed geese, broken branches and flowers, pheasant peonies, etc., and choose more elegant and warm bean green, which is more refreshing.

Wang Qin, the great eunuch beside the emperor, opened the curtain for Ruyi and came in. I think I have just changed into homely clothes, the body is a moon-white yarn embroidered eight groups of dragon robes, the emperor idly holds a book in his hand, the pale golden clear autumn sun from the snow-white paper window spills all over the body, let the halo dye a warm silhouette, the dragon pattern incense burner with copper inlaid enamel is burning amber-like ambergris, the whole room is filled with the quiet and melancholy smell of ambergris, and it has also become faint and curling, lined with the fragrance of books, but it is like a freehand painting scroll with light brushwork.

The emperor saw Ruyi wearing a moon-white satin woven colorful butterfly shirt 1, the moon-white plain makeup satin, with red, pink, turquoise, grass green, fragrant yellow, camel yellow, light red, lake blue, dark gray, light black, light white and other more than ten kinds of color threads woven into a little folded branch flowers and insect butterfly patterns, although plain, but not lose the gorgeous.

He stood up and smiled, "You coincidentally wear the same color as me." ”

Ruyi smiled and saluted, "It didn't disturb the emperor's reading, even if it was a coincidence." ”

The Emperor put down his book and beckoned to her, "Come and sit." Seeing Ruyi sitting on the edge of the couch, Fang Cai smiled and said, "I just ascended the throne, and the affairs of the previous dynasty have not been finished, so I have no time to see you." Now that you're here, it's just right. He sniffed and saw Ruyi's heart behind him holding a red basket snack box, "What delicious did you bring, it's so fragrant!" ”

Ruyi raised his face and motioned for his heart to take it out, but it was just four small snacks, steamed cheese with sugar, pine nut cake, lotus root flour cinnamon sugar cake and yam cake with rose hawthorn filling.

The emperor smiled: "I happen to be a little hungry, so I can use a little with me." ”

Ruyi took out the silver chopsticks, handed them to the emperor, and said with a smile: "The concubine originally wanted to prepare four kinds of snacks, but who knew that there were only three ready-made ones in the palace." This flavor of lotus root flour cinnamon sugar cake was given by the Queen Mother, saying that the emperor loved to eat this. I couldn't go to Shoukang Palace for these two days, so I gave it to the concubine, and the concubine just borrowed flowers to offer the Buddha. ”

The emperor took a chopstick and ate it slowly, "I heard that the emperor changed your name?" ”

"It's called Ruyi. The Queen Mother said that Yi is beautiful and quiet. Lin Yide, indecent will not be dealt with. That's why it's called Ruyi. ”

The Emperor sighed. "The temperament of the emperor's mother, I have been by her side for many years and I can't figure it out. She changed your name, and this is what it means, probably it won't be difficult for you. He shook Ruyi's wrist, "This morning, I heard that the Empress Jingren Palace had passed by, and I thought you should go and have a look, but I was afraid that the Empress Dowager would be distracted, so it was inconvenient to say anything." ”

Ruyi lowered her eyebrows for a moment, "The concubine knows, the concubine doesn't go." Once gone, it is right and wrong, the concubine is a person who loves the Xinjueluo family, and she should not add right and wrong to the emperor. ”

The emperor nodded, and personally handed her a piece of yam cake, "This yam cake is sweet and sour, you like this taste." ”

Ruyi thanked him, looked around and said: "The emperor likes the wall bottle, it could have been arranged at four o'clock, people were flower companions, and its Qingfen full bed, the god of lying was refreshing, but now it is lit with ambergris, but it is not good to use flowers and plants, so as not to mess up the smell." ”

The Emperor smiled and said, "I think so too. Therefore, it is better to be empty and idle to watch and play. ”

Ruyi stood up, looked at one of the bottles and said: "This pattern is good, not as good as other auspicious patterns, but like a story." ”

The emperor laughed at her, "Lao Laizi Caiyi entertains relatives, have you forgotten this?" ”

Ruyi glanced at the bookshelf and saw that the emperor's case was empty, so he smiled: "The book "Twenty-four Filial Piety" that the emperor reads every day, why is it not in front of him now?" ”

The emperor said casually: "I guess I put it somewhere, go back and let Wang Qin look for it." ”

Ruyi seemed to be contemplating something, "Your Majesty, the concubine remembers that the first article in "Twenty-four Filial Piety" is Min Ziqian's single clothes and relatives? ”

The Emperor laughed, "What's wrong with you today?" The first part of "Twenty-four Filial Piety" is Yu Shunxiao's moving sky, and the second article is Min Ziqian's single-clothed relatives. ”

Ruyi said with a smile: "The emperor has filial piety in his heart, so he naturally remembers it clearly. The first article of "Twenty-four Filial Piety" is about Yu Shun's filial piety moving the sky, which shows that in the hearts of the world, filial piety is always the first thing, and the king is used as a model to promote filial piety. The emperor just ascended the throne, everything was so busy that he didn't have time to go to the harem. She pondered for a moment, "The Queen Mother, she still lives in Shoukang Palace." ”

The Emperor raised his eyebrows, "What?" Didn't the Internal Affairs Office repeatedly invite the emperor to Cining Palace? Why do you still live in Shoukang Palace? ”

Ruyi smiled slightly, "According to the concubines, it is not that the Internal Affairs Office is ineffective, but that the Queen Mother deliberately left this opportunity to show filial piety to the emperor." ”

The emperor was silent for a moment, and his soft smile was a little lazy, "I also want the Empress Dowager to move to Cining Palace." But ......" Ruyi understood and motioned for the palace people to retreat. Only the emperor and Ruyi were left in the pavilion, and the emperor said in a low voice: "But in my heart, there is always a place where I can't get over." His gaze turned to the window, a little confused, "My own mother......"

Ruyi looked at the emperor with a look, pressed his hand, shook his head gently, and said firmly: "The emperor's biological mother, only the queen mother, lives in Shoukang Palace, waiting for the emperor to ask her to move to Cining Palace." ”

The emperor's gaze was as calm as deep water, "The queen mother has been favored for many years, and she is quite powerful in the court and the palace, if she is in the Cining Palace, I am afraid that she will not ......"

"Whether you will or will not is not about whether you can enter Cining Palace, but about the emperor's courage and talent. The emperor has the world in his heart, and he has thousands of strategies in his chest, so why not be afraid of a woman. Ruyi looked at the emperor steadily, "Cining Palace is just a place where the Empress Dowager lives. She held the emperor's hand instead, and comforted the hot flashes in his palm with the coldness of her palm, "Your Majesty, if you have wronged the residence of the Queen Mother, the subjects of the world will accuse you." And sending the queen mother to Cining Palace woke up the people of the world, and the emperor raised the queen mother with the world and asked her to live for the rest of her life. ”

The emperor's eyes were slightly downcast, and for a moment, he showed two smiles, "Then I, according to what you said, I will be filial to you, and ask the Queen Mother to take care of her life and recuperate." ”

Note 1:

Shirt: Qing Dynasty women's shirt for the round neck, right side, twisted placket, straight body, flat sleeves, no opening, with five buttons of the long coat, sleeves in the form of sleeves (sleeve length to the wrist), semi-wide sleeves (short wide cuffs plus two layers of sleeves) two categories, cuffs and then add additional decorations. The shirt is the general daily casual dress of women, with velvet embroidery, yarn, flat gold, and weaving flowers, and the whole body is trimmed, and there are more and more trims in the late Qing Dynasty. It is often worn over the shirt and shoulders. Autumn and winter with leather and cotton.