Xuan Ye rinsed his mouth with tea, and waited for the concubine to send a hot hand towel to wipe his face, and put it on his eyes for a while, and when he handed it back, the concubine held her balm box and said: "The emperor has not been here for a long time, only for the concubines here, if you don't dislike it, just wipe a little, otherwise the concubines will go to the house with the concubine and sister to get some of your favorite use." ”

"No need." Xuan Ye picked some by himself and wiped them on his face, sure enough, it was the usual fragrance on the concubine's body, and he knew in his heart that since it was rare to rest in the concubine's room, why bother to alarm others again, everyone wanted to be faced.

The concubine was busy for a long time, and finally sat down, sat at the end of the bed and beat the emperor's legs, Xuan Ye asked her to rest and not be busy, but the concubine smiled: "It's rare for a concubine to serve you." He added, "Although Concubine Yi has a broken mouth, she is always lively, if she doesn't go out to worship the Buddha in Yikun Palace, I'm afraid that there will be no fun for the New Year." ”

Xuan Ye was silent, and the concubine saw that he didn't want to mention this matter, so she changed the topic and said: "The concubine and Sister Concubine De said that in the future, the fourth elder brother will have another child, and let the concubine help raise it." ”

Although they didn't have the head to mention this, they really didn't have anything to say between them, Xuan Ye didn't want to make it difficult for the concubine to be cold, so he simply chatted with her for a few words, saying that the heirs in the fourth elder brother's mansion are now withering, and the concubine asked the emperor to choose a few more newcomers to give to Sibeiler, although there are many people in Sibeile's mansion, compared to other families, it is indeed not much.

Xuan Ye was perfunctory, and when to choose a grandson to raise for the concubine, but said: "It's better to wait for the next child, whether it is a boy or a girl, to be raised in the mansion until he is two or three years old, and then he will be sent to the palace to be your companion. ”

The concubine was naturally happy, thanked the emperor, and then said some common words, and the two got along overnight.

The next day, Xuan Ye really invited the master of Yong'an Temple to Yikun Palace to explain Buddhism to Concubine Yi, and the joke spread out, the fifth elder brother and the ninth elder brother had no face, the fifth elder brother was fine, the ninth elder brother scolded the Yonghe Palace up and down in the Babeile Mansion, and the eight blessings sent tea in, and deliberately said: "The ninth brother should be careful when he speaks, don't be like Concubine Yi, and be called by the emperor to serve the Buddha." ”

Yinxi motioned to his wife not to talk too much, and after she left, he comforted: "Anyway, there is nothing else, you go to force your head now, Huang Ama will definitely take you under the knife, we haven't gotten out of the attack on the prince yet, no matter what, you have to be patient for a while." ”

Brother Nine laughed: "What's wrong with us, it's all patience." He said, "Today, the fourth child did not go to the court, saying that he was sick, I see that Huang Ama is indifferent, does he know the reason?" ”

Yin Xi couldn't figure it out, but he had already sent someone to investigate, so he said, "If you have news, I'll tell you immediately." ”

At this moment, in the four Baylor mansions, the family is accustomed to getting up early in the morning to wait for Baylor to go out to the court, and today the people who stood in a courtyard with their eyes blank were rumored that Baylor was resting and could not go, and Xiao Hezi sent news to the palace, saying that the fourth elder brother was sick and could not go to the court.

Yuxi dealt with the thirteenth elder brother, returned to the house, and blamed him: "What's wrong with you, you don't even see Yinxiang?" ”

Yin Zhen opened his eyes lazily and said casually: "I'll try to see what it's like to be so idle and do nothing." ”

"Nonsense."

"Just today." Yin Zhen smiled slightly, he didn't know what else was hidden in his eyes, and said to his wife mysteriously, "I'll be busy from tomorrow, don't keep urging me to go to the house here and there, I'll live in the study tomorrow." ”

Yu Xi glanced at him: "How do you speak?" What I'm urging you to do. ”

Yinzhen was not in a bad mood, and hurriedly took his wife's hand and coaxed: "Naturally, when you want to see me, come to the study, and you can do it at any time." ”

Yuxi asked, "You're not going to the court?" What about the guests at home? I entered the palace to say goodbye, and my mother asked me, what do I say? What's the matter, you're going to pile this family on me? ”

Yin Zhen smiled: "Take you frivolous." "But seriously, I instructed, "You and Fang Fujin and the others say, don't go to the backyard if you have nothing to do from tomorrow, there is a door in the back, there are a lot of people coming and going, carefully bump into strange men, I naturally won't let them come to the front, just stay in front of your sisters." When I came to the study, I sent someone to ask if I was talking to someone else. ”

Yuxi heard it in a fog, but Yinzhen whispered in her ear: "This time, I want to secretly run an errand for Huang Ama, and it looks like it is naturally kept at home for leisure, and if they make any trouble in the future, we will not mix." ”

"That being the case, of course I'll listen to you." Yuxi thought for a while and said, "We don't care about what others do, but what about the thirteenth and fourteenth?" What about Xiao Chen'er. ”

"There are Huang Ama and Eniang here." Before Yinzhen's words fell, the maid outside the door asked Fujin to go out to talk.

Yuxi came out, heard that Yuqing Palace sent someone to invite the fourth elder brother into the palace to speak, she conveyed it to her husband, and soon brought his subordinates to meet the people of Yuqing Palace, and said politely: "Trouble this father-in-law to return to the prince, Sibeile is not lightly ill, and he can't go out to blow the wind for a while, if there is any errand I can do, please don't be polite to the prince, if not, please ask the prince to tell other brothers." ”

The original words were transmitted back to the prince, he was so anxious that he paced in the room, the princess just watched coldly from the sidelines, she was almost accustomed to her husband's headless fly-like anxiety, and gradually stopped worrying about him, as if accepting the future arrangement, and waited for the move out of this luxurious palace with a heart, but the prince did not know that even his wife had given up on him.

In the days that followed, the emperor was busy dealing with the Dzungar Ministry and had no time to spare. The DPRK and China have not talked about military affairs for a long time, and they have lost their generals one after another, and sure enough, it is a little difficult to pick up everything again, and the children of the Eight Banners are far less brave and good at fighting than they were 20 years ago, and most of them are new recruits and new generals who have not experienced war. In order to prevent the treacherous Alabutan from attacking at any time, although the weather is getting colder, the drills of the three armies are in full swing, the emperor goes to Nanyuan every other day to review, and the local army is also assembled on standby. The emperor, with his ministers and princes, took this opportunity to reorganize the Great Fresh Army and change the officers and officials to prepare for the war that would come at any time.

And when it comes to fighting, people are always panicked, women are most afraid of war, and Concubine Yi repaid the Buddha's vows for the emperor in the Yikun Palace, and the master instructed that day, it would take nine hundred and eighty-one days, and the palace was silent for a while, until the snowy wax moon, and finally saw Concubine Yi again. And she was frustrated by this, and she didn't ease up for a while, and the most lively person was silent, as the concubine said, this year's New Year, there is a lot less fun.

In the blink of an eye, it was the forty-sixth year of Kangxi, and the road was closed due to heavy snow in the lunar month, and the fourteenth elder brother who had recovered from his injury could not rush back to the New Year, and he hurriedly returned to the capital on the first month, but at that time the emperor was ready to drive the sixth southern tour, and the fourteenth elder brother lived in the palace for no more than one night, and his mother couldn't say a few words, and followed his father south the next day.

Lan Qi only remembered that his white and strong son had become a bronzer, and he hadn't seen him for a few months, he was stronger and stronger, and his voice was like a bell, Huan Chun said: "Probably in the vast grassland, you have to shout when you talk about it, and the fourteenth elder brother has trained his voice there." ”

"It's so tanned, I don't even recognize it, it's not summer, he's running outside every day, otherwise how can he be tanned like this." Lan Qi couldn't cry or laugh, and when she talked about her eldest son, she said, "Look at Yinzhen again, she looks like a white-faced scholar." ”

Since the fourth elder brother said that he was sick in the autumn, he almost did not appear in the court, others only knew that he often received monks and scholars at home, and he was self-cultivation and concentrated on Zen meditation, while others were so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, and the emperor Layue suddenly wanted to tour the south, and he left in the first month, in order to prepare for the matters of the southward journey, he had no intention of caring what the fourth elder brother was doing.

Now the emperor set off for the south, there are many purposes of this trip, water control is still the top priority, and then prepare for military expenses, review the garrisons along the way, from the eldest brother, the prince, to the fourteenth elder brother, before and after the saddle horse with the emperor to the northeast and west, there is no interest in playing in previous years, and the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother have long been prepared for their father's "fate", the emperor understands the reason in his heart, just pretend to be deaf and dumb, and prepare for military expenses first.

This walk, at the end of May, just returned to Beijing, followed by June patrol, July and August in the Mongolian tribes to walk around, a busy year is about to pass, when he returned to the capital in September, Lan Qi saw the emperor again, only felt that the wind and dust all the way to his sideburns, Xuan Ye finally thought about resting for a while, led Lan Qi and a few people, to Changchun Garden to recuperate.

When the first snow fell in the capital this year, Yuxi and the thirteen or fourteen families of Fujin came together to greet Lan Qi, when the concubine was sitting in Ruijingxuan, they worked together to sew new swaddling clothes, and when they saw the daughters-in-law coming, Lan Qi pushed his hand and said: "We are a little dazzled, you come to sew a few stitches." ”

Fourteen Fu Jin said: "This is for Zhang Gege in the Eight Baylor Mansion? ”

Concubine Liang smiled: "I said that I was going to give birth in the first month, and I was also a grandmother for the first time, and I wanted to sew a swaddling baby for the child." ”

Lan Qi said that she had a backache and wanted to go out for a walk with Concubine Liang, so she gathered Dayu in the courtyard to enjoy the snow, and a few people looked outside, and the Thirteen Fujin said softly: "I heard that Bafujin goes to the Taoist temple every day to burn incense and pray for that Zhang Gege, it's really rare, isn't it still a legend that Bafujin abused the concubine and caused her to have a miscarriage?" ”

Yuxi looked like an eldest sister-in-law, and lightly nodded her finger on the head of her younger brother and sister: "E-niang doesn't love us, you should be careful when you speak." ”

But the two young siblings didn't have so many scruples, and the fourteenth Fujin even said to the sister-in-law: "Don't be surprised, we are thinking, if that Taoist view is really so effective, why don't the fourth sister-in-law ask for it?" ”

Yuxi was stunned, although she was sad in her heart, but she knew that her younger brothers and sisters were all well-intentioned, so she joked and said: "You have a few more children, if the fourth sister-in-law is really fateless, is it good for you to give birth to the fourth brother's family?" ”

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