When Fu Heng went out, he was bright, and when he arrived at Yingtai, the sun was already rising, and he just came to report the good news today, unlike on New Year's Day, when he brought a lot of people and things, he walked in one door after another, and he was getting closer and closer to Hongyan.

In the Qingyun Palace, Concubine Shouqi and Concubine Wen Hui were talking about family routines, in fact, Fu Henglai was officially announcing the good news on behalf of the emperor, but there were already palace people who came and went between the Forbidden City and Yingtai every day, and sent the news of the safe delivery of the Hai nobles. At this moment, Hongyan sat on the side and sewed a small quilt with a five-bat pattern, ready to let the palace people send it back to the Forbidden City.

Hearing that Fu Heng asked to see him, Concubine Shouqi's crooked posture at the moment was comfortable, and her silver hair was only gently pulled, unwilling to toss up to meet outsiders, so she instructed Hongyan: "You go and deal with a few words, just say that I am tired today, and I will not see anyone." ”

Hongyan never resisted the matter of seeing Fu Heng, although she knew that they had such an inexplicable relationship, but Hongyan didn't notice it at all, and now she hopes to respect Lord Fucha, and respect the queen and his Miss Fujin Nalan.

She came out generously, even though it was February, and she was still wearing a winter robe. The plain crescent moon white entangled plum, with the plum-colored brocade wind and shoulders, not only looks young and lively, but also will not be taboo because of wearing white, which is the clothes of Concubine Wenhui when she was young. This time she moved, Concubine Wen Hui also turned out a lot of things left when she was young, they would not give them to their daughters-in-law and granddaughters if they had no heirs, they were wasted, they loved to be beautiful, and they all loved to give them to her to dress her up.

Kangxi Ye's fashionable palace robe patterns in the harem at that time were a little less exaggerated than now, although the age could be seen at a glance, but it was more precious and stable, and the red face came out of the inner hall, as if it was full of the fragrance of plum blossoms, and the emperor's concubine who was "abandoned" in Yingtai became more and more vivid.

"The concubine is occasionally lazy, too lazy to move, and I don't see the adult today, and the adult goes back to tell the emperor, and there is no need to say that the concubine is not in good health." Hongyan smiled politely, Xu was facing Fu Heng, a little less taboo, and said clearly, "The concubine doesn't like to comb her hair now, but seeing that the adults are only a cup of tea, combing their hair and tossing for a long time." ”

Fu Heng saw that he was generous, he was really no longer the little palace maid who followed the queen and the princess in the past, I don't know if the clothes she wore were richer than before, or she was taught by the two concubines here, she came to Yingtai, and she didn't look like an abandoned person at all.

She lives so fully, in this pure place where you can hardly see people, even the little cherry beside her is not overwhelmed by loneliness, her words and smiles are full of vitality, as if the master and servant are influencing each other, so many people have a depressed and hard life in the Forbidden City, guessing how Wei Yu, who was abandoned here, should be down, in fact, she is better than anyone else.

Yes, she has a lot of heart, why can't she live well?

Fu Heng explained the affairs of the palace, and after conveying the emperor's intentions, there was nothing to say, and what he wanted to say was what he wanted to say in his heart that could not be easily spoken.

"Cherry, go get my clothes, let's go fold a few spring plums and insert bottles for the concubine to enjoy." Hongyan saw that Fu Heng was a little embarrassed, but she calmly ordered Cherry, and said to Fu Heng, "There is a way to go out with adults, adults don't mind, right?" The concubine talked about Chunmei for a few days, but although the sun was good in the past two days, the wind had been blowing, and I didn't let the concubine go out. The old man is like a child, and he always loves to talk about things he remembers. ”

Fu Heng was naturally willing to walk with Hongyan, and the two walked out of the palace gate three or four steps apart, although there were few people in Yingtai, there were always palace maids and eunuchs here, but they did not hide it, and walked generously under the sun, and others would not think it was strange. After walking for a while, Hongyan thought about why the cherry hadn't come yet, Fu Heng thought she was cold, and naturally wanted to untie his windbreaker, but the moment he pulled out the strap he was tiding, he remembered that it was not appropriate, and he couldn't do it at all.

But the tangled and painful emotions floated, and there was no one else around, Fu Heng couldn't hold it after all, and asked, "Hongyan, how are you?" ”

"Okay." Hongyan responded generously, but he knew in his heart that it was no longer appropriate to say this.

"I've been here twice, and I haven't seen you ask me how the emperor is, do you really don't want to know, or do you want to know but it's inconvenient to ask me?" Fu Heng hung his head slightly, saying these words was already the limit, if he looked at Hongyan affectionately, it would really be a step towards death.

Hongyan smiled faintly: "Every day, there are palace people who come and go between Yingtai and the Forbidden City, in fact, we know more or less about the things in the palace, as for whether the emperor is good or not, outsiders can't see whether he is good or not, as long as he is healthy and safe, no news is the best news, I know it in my heart." ”

At this time, the cherry finally came, holding the clothes and running out of breath, was disgusted by Hongyan for a few words, after wrapping the clothes, the master and servant were about to go to fold the plum, sure enough, there was one more person, Hongyan and Fu Heng were more comfortable, Hongyan herself secretly reminded that she had no other thoughts today, but obviously she was not suitable for being alone with Fu Heng anymore, she couldn't ask Lord Fucha how to do it, she would abide by her duty first, then she couldn't be wrong. As for whether she misses the emperor or not, and whether she cares about him, probably only Cherry and the concubine know.

On that day, Fu Heng returned to the Forbidden City to restore his life, and the emperor's will to seal the sea nobles and Jia Concubine was also made, and on February 13, the noble Hai Jiashi was officially canonized as the concubine, and the Jia concubine was promoted to the concubine, and the pure concubine had been promoted to the third elder brother after giving birth, and this time there was no benefit to her, and several other emperors brought the deceased from the subterranean mansion also got the Jin title respectively, and the origin of the fifth elder brother brought a lot of joy to the harem. This made the newly sealed Concubine Jia happy and unconvinced, after all, when she gave birth to the fourth elder brother, there was no benefit.

However, the emperor had no intention of appeasing her grievances, although the harem was wet with rain and dew at the moment, it was still the young and beautiful Shu Guiren who was the most favored, but Shu Guiren seemed to be favored, and when Wei promised to be held in the palm of the emperor's hand, everyone seemed to have something in their throats.

Shu Guiren, who is in the limelight, quickly kept up with the pace of several mothers, and was named Shu Concubine as soon as the summer passed, and the palace was short in time, and the heirs were useless, but they rose smoothly, to put it bluntly, as long as the emperor likes it, he can give anything.

At present, in the sixth year of Qianlong, it is the fiftieth birthday of the empress dowager, and the emperor has begun to prepare various things to celebrate his mother's birthday since the beginning of spring.

In the middle of summer, he and the queen served the queen mother to Chengde to leave the palace to escape the summer, in the name of the queen mother, exempted from three-tenths of the amount of the area passed, in August Mulan went around, and in the name of the queen mother, the amount of the state and county through which the line was reduced, and he wandered around Beijing for a few months, and returned to Beijing at the end of August. The end of October is the birthday of the Queen Mother, and the entire Forbidden City is busy with this grand birthday banquet, and even the things on the Double Ninth Festival are simply coping.

The queen mother is not a person who is greedy for luxury and waste, but she is not good at disobeying her son's intentions, in order not to cause trouble to the queen and the six palaces, she does not ask about the birthday, and on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, she will not let the six palaces come to ask for peace, and drink a cup of tea with several old ladies of the prince's mansion in Ningshou Palace, even if it is over.

But as soon as the emperor was early in the morning, he took a group of clan children and civil and military ministers to climb outside the city, which is an annual practice and understandable, but the queen was busy with the birthday banquet and could not go with her this year.

Seeing that Niangniang was distracted, Concubine Xian cautiously asked, "Niangniang, is there anything wrong?" ”

The queen came back to her senses and only smiled faintly: "Who knows." ”

Concubine Xian didn't understand the four words that had no head and no brain, but since it had nothing to do with her, she didn't bother to care. casually opened the list of attendees at the birthday banquet, Fucha Fu Qing's name came into her eyes like a glow, the queen mother's birthday banquet that cost countless manpower and financial resources, there was finally one thing that Concubine Xian thought was worth it, she could see Brother Fu Qing again.

Outside the Forbidden City, the emperor led the crowd to ascend, but Xu was not accompanied by the queen this year, all the ceremonies were in a hurry, the emperor and the queen in previous years after the ceremony to go around, this year after the blessing, on the back to the palace.

But the wheels are rolling, and in the long guard of honor, no one knows what is going on in the imperial chariot. Fucha Fu Heng and his guards kept patrolling the guards back and forth, but he didn't know that the emperor was no longer in the palace, and when he came down from the mountain, he took his own soldiers to Yingtai, avoiding everyone's eyes.

On the Double Ninth Festival, there were few people in the palace who came to send things to the concubines for the queen mother, the emperor and the queen, but this time no ministers were sent, only a group of little eunuchs with his father-in-law, and they were not in a hurry to enter the palace when they arrived in Yingtai, as if they were waiting for someone.

Cherry hadn't seen her grandfather for a year, and she was looking forward to it at the gate of the palace early, and when she finally saw her father-in-law coming, the little girl pounced all of a sudden. I haven't seen my granddaughter grow up so much for a year, and my father-in-law is also full of emotion, but he asked: "Wei promised, why aren't you by your master's side." ”

"The master knows that I am in a hurry to see my grandfather, so let me wait by myself, the master is busy in the small kitchen, and now the concubine's meals are all made by the master himself." Cherry became more and more sharp-toothed, glanced at the person behind her, and took her grandfather to Qingyun Hall to see Concubine Shouqi.

When he arrived outside the Qingyun Palace, he and his father-in-law glanced at the people behind him, asking them to put the things they sent in place, and then went to meet the concubine with his granddaughter. And the person in charge here quietly came to the small kitchen of Qingyun Palace, Wei promised to stir-fry in front of the stove, he waved his hand, and asked the palace maids who were waiting on the side to retreat.

Hongyan put up the side dishes and wanted to hand them to the palace maid beside her, but no one answered, she turned around with the bowl in her hand, and found that the palace maids in the kitchen were gone, and there was only one person sitting at the table, wearing ordinary clothes, and she couldn't see the five-clawed golden dragon of the past, but the familiar face and figure, Hongyan had only seen it in her dreams in the past year.

"I don't put it down yet, I'm burning my hands." Hongli was sitting and waiting for her to come, but when he saw Hongyan in a daze, he could only step forward and take a bowl of hot dishes from her hand, and when he saw the palm that was burned red, he frowned and said, "I don't recognize me, why are you in a daze?" ”