Seeing that her mind was guessed, Lan Qi stingily turned her face away and ignored Huanchun, sorted out the letters by herself, and put them together in the box where the letters were collected. It was all letters from Xuan Ye when she was away all these years, and when the two were together, they would occasionally pick out one or two letters from the past on a whim. Xuan Ye was often surprised by his enthusiastic words, but everything was in the depths of his memory, and he could recall it all with a little stroke, and the two of them could often laugh for a long time.

"Master, do you still use dinner? The princesses were waiting in the dining room, and they had been wandering around the garden for half the afternoon, and they were already hungry. Huanchun leaned over, smiled at the master, and said, "Are you satisfied after reading the letter and don't you feel hungry?" ”

Lan Qi patted her on the arm, and said with love and hate: "At the end of the year, everyone should call you Mama, and you are not serious yet." But holding Huanchun's hand and putting on his shoes, he got up with a smile on his face, and said generously, "My heart is full, so naturally I am not hungry." I'm not glad that your family doesn't bring newcomers back to the palace, I don't care if there are newcomers around him, it's just that a lot of people are picked in the draft, if you say you want to bring newcomers, it's hard for me to do it, and now I don't have to worry a lot, it's a good thing. ”

Seeing Huanchun's evil smile, he went to his daughter, for fear that the children would see something, and ordered her not to smile so brightly, Huanchun couldn't help but say: "Niangniang is smiling brightly, and the slave is laughing at your duplicity, every time you say such things, you are very verbose." ”

Lan Qi glanced at her and said with a smile: "You and I are almost a hundred years old combined." As he spoke, he folded his fingers and calculated, the corners of his eyes flew with joy, and he said softly, "When the emperor is fifty and three, he and I will be exactly 100 years old. ”

Huanchun sighed with emotion, helped the master all the way to the dining room, and said happily: "Naturally, it is happy, but I ask the emperor and the mother to live a long and healthy life." ”

At this moment, dinner was also set up in Yuqing Palace, but only the prince and Babeile were sitting at the table, the crown princess, Fang Fujin and the imperial grandchildren were not in front of them, full of dishes, and the little eunuch on the side kept adding wine to Babeile's cup, Yinxi stopped him and said that he couldn't drink more, but the prince patted him on the shoulder: "Drink, it's a big deal to stay with me for one night, and then go back to my brother's place, don't be afraid if you get drunk, you don't know what it's like to be drunk when you're so big, right?" ”

Yinyu thought in his heart that his father had always disliked alcoholism, and only drank a few more glasses on particularly important festivals, most of them were only slightly drunk, rarely drunk, and almost did not touch alcohol in his daily life, and he was very restrained. The brothers learned the appearance of their father, even if it was in the way of his preferences, they didn't drink, don't say that Yinxi didn't know what it was like to be drunk, he didn't know how much alcohol he had.

But tonight the prince is happy, he has poured himself more than half a catty, looking at the prince's amount of wine is not bad, although his cheeks are slightly red, but he is still very sober, Yinxi drank two or three glasses, and he still doesn't know his own depth, but he is already very disgusted in his heart.

When the prince saw that he was holding the wine glass and not drinking, and his wine jug was empty, when he wanted to add more wine, the eunuch who served him timidly said: "The mother has a life, the prince is greedy for a cup and hurts his body, if the slave finds wine for you, the slave's life is not guaranteed." ”

The prince sneered, and said to his younger brother: "Look at your sister-in-law, she is young, but she has to take care of everything. As he spoke, his eyes stared at the pot of wine that had barely touched in Yinxi's hand, and the younger brother was stunned, and hurriedly sent it to the prince, but after thinking about it, he took it back again, and said respectfully, "You have drunk a lot." ”

"Drunk and disorderly, the last time you bumped into me, I was drunk and unconscious, listening to your imperial sister-in-law say that, I still don't believe it." The prince's eyes were red with wine, and there was no meaning that could be read, and he looked at Yinxi with a complicated expression and said, "Brother, count the most embarrassed looks you have seen me, and this time, I was bumped into by you again." ”

Sure enough, the prince was looking for Yinxi for the eunuch of Yuqing Palace to take out of the palace privately, and the customs and defense in the palace were in the hands of the eighth elder brother, and that matter was bound to reach his ears, although he didn't meet it head-on, it was strange and scary to hear it. immediately resolved those people and did not let the situation further expand, but he never said anything to the prince about it, and he was also uneasy in his heart.

If you want to think about it, the eunuch is not stupid, how can he steal so many things and take them out at once, he must have been entrusted to do things for his master, and the value of the jewelry and utensils he searched out is at least twenty or thirty thousand taels, but he is in such a hurry to take it out, if he sells it cheaply, I am afraid that four or five thousand taels may not be able to be exchanged, but why can't Yuqing Palace even take out four or five thousand taels, or how can there be a shortage of so much silver, to the point of selling jewelry? Yin Xi didn't need to use his head, he could guess that it was because of this turmoil in the capital, Prince An's mansion had come to deal with him in private, and he didn't dare to let his wife know.

"Eighth brother." The prince shouted enthusiastically, "That incident, you just pretend that nothing happened, okay?" ”

Yin Yu lowered his eyes and said softly: "Brother Chen doesn't know anything, what are you talking about, Imperial Brother?" ”

The corners of the prince's mouth flew over an indifferent smile, and he hummed softly: "In the end, it's my brother, it's very good." ”

Yinxi looked at his brother again, silently took out two pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to the prince: "Not long after the younger brother built the mansion, there was almost no expenditure at home, and these were saved by the gifts received everywhere when he married Fujin. ”

The prince frowned slightly, but his hand involuntarily touched it, and when he opened it slightly, he could see the appearance inside under the lamplight, which were two silver tickets, each worth one thousand taels, adding up to two thousand taels of silver. He looked at his younger brother in astonishment and asked, "You can receive so much gift money, then I ......" He seemed to want to say, then how when he got married, he had no concept of all this, and if he wanted to say that his wife would not hide it from him, but he really didn't know that he could receive so much.

Yinyu explained: "The New Year's money received from the great grandmother, the imperial grandmother, and the emperor Ama and the mothers since I was a child, Concubine Hui saved it for me, and then I took care of it myself, and I didn't need the money in the palace at all, so it was all here." ”

"Isn't that all your savings?" The prince frowned.

"It's just the private money of the minister's brother, the money in the house is taken care of by your brother and sister, and I don't want to get involved, without her hands, the minister's brother only has these." Yin Xi smiled slightly, and pushed the silver ticket to the prince again, "In this way, you should trust your brother." ”

Indeed, Yinxi has money to do with himself, and those messy things really make a fuss in front of the emperor, at least the eighth brother will not betray himself easily, otherwise he will be involved in it, why should he dig his own grave, so he can rest assured that he can rest assured that he can accept this money is to buy both places, why not do it.

But when Yinxi left Yuqing Palace, his mood was heavier than when he came, although he was in the palace since he was a child, he could count the number of times he had been to Yuqing Palace, and he barely stayed as long as he did today, and even had a good time with the prince.

Yuqing Palace is the existence of Qianqing Palace in the eyes of all brothers, and now when he sees this unattainable place, he really understands the difference between the two places, the prince is only a prince after all, even if his father requires a difference between brothers and ministers, but in the eyes of Yinxi, the prince is not worthy at all.

All the way to the outside of the palace, the faint smell of wine on his body dissipated in the breeze, the eighth elder brother's troubles were not the prince's cowardice and incompetence, but he didn't know what the heaviness in his heart was.

In Yuqing Palace, Yinren sat alone at the wine table, the crown princess was already quietly standing outside the door, and the smell of wine wafting out of the room from time to time made her frown deeply, she didn't walk in, and she didn't know what to say to her husband when she walked in.

looked at it, but saw that her husband began to tear the pieces of paper in his hand, very slowly, but he tore it again and again, and then raised his hand lightly, and the fragments fell like snow, he Huo Ran got up and went outside, and when he saw his wife outside the door, he smiled disdainfully: "Don't worry, he won't go around saying that he waded into this troubled water, and he is not clean." I'm writing excerpts in my study tonight, so you can rest. ”

The crown princess was worried in her heart, and she agreed, and when her husband left, she walked straight in, looked at the fragments all over the ground, picked up some casually, and saw the appearance of sporadic words and seals, and then picked up some more and put them together, looking at the appearance of a silver ticket, her heart tightened, and tried to pick up more pieces to piece together, seeing the value of the silver ticket, her heart jumped suddenly, at this juncture, the prince actually tore two thousand taels of silver?

She sat down heavily, and raised her eyes to see the carved beams and paintings in the palace, what kind of world did this magnificent everything support?

The night is getting deeper, the lights in Yonghe Palace are gradually extinguished, Wen Xian and Wen Chen are resting together, it seems that Wen Xian knows that he is going to get married, and it is even rarer for his sister to give up traveling with her father in order to accompany her.

After washing, he sat in front of the mirror and combed his hair, Huanchun didn't know what to do outside, and came back for a long time, took the comb to take care of the green silk for Lan Qi, and said softly behind him: "The prince seems to have invited the eighth elder brother to drink, I heard that the eighth elder brother left with the smell of wine, you say it is not strange, the eighth elder brother rarely left the palace for two days, and specially called the eighth elder brother to drink." ”

Lan Qi said indifferently: "On weekdays, the eighth elder brother was on an errand when he was in the palace, and the prince didn't dare to invite him, but since he went back to rest, it was nothing to specially call him to drink, they are all adults." ”

"The mother can really see it." Huanchun smiled, "The slave bets, Concubine Rong should come to tell you about it early tomorrow, Concubine Rong doesn't know anything." ”

Lan Qi smiled at this time: "It's also true, the connections she has accumulated in the palace for so many years have always been left and right, and no one can be offended, in comparison, she is more well-informed than me." ”

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