Ye Pei changed into eunuch clothes, carried a golden access control waist card in his waist, followed Zhao Zhen, entered the palace from Xihua Gate, passed by Jiying Gate and Huangyi Gate, passed through the vertical arch, and came to Funing Palace.

Zhao Zhen instructed Ye Pei to wait for him in the dormitory, he changed into a red cloud dragon pattern vermilion robe, and hurried to the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. About an hour and a half, Zhao Zhen hurried back again and ordered the little eunuchs that no one was allowed to come in without his orders.

Zhao Zhen came in and said mysteriously: "Pei'er, what do you see I brought back to you?" ”

Ye Pei leaned over to take a look, Zhao Zhen took out a silk handkerchief bag from his wide sleeve, he carefully opened it layer by layer, and it turned out to be two shortbreads made into the shape of crabs.

Seeing this, Ye Pei laughed and said, "How can there be an emperor like you, who has a snack hidden in the sleeve of the dragon robe." ”

Zhao Zhen said shyly: "I'm afraid that you will be hungry if you wait for a long time." ”

"Hee-hee, I'm a little hungry, but it's disrespectful." Ye Pei took it and ate it in small bites. She asked Zhao Zhen again: "Sixth brother, are you still allergic to shrimp and crabs now?" ”

Zhao Zhen said: "It's much better, but I still don't dare to eat crab roe." Zhao Zhen said as he went to the Babao lattice and took down a set of tea sets, "I'll order tea for you to drink." Then he went out and fetched a small tea stove and came in.

Ye Pei was eating dim sum and watching Zhao Zhen order tea, and the silver tea bottle was boiling on the small red clay stove. Zhao Zhen took out a small tea cake printed with the dragon and phoenix pattern, he wrapped the tea cake with a piece of tea paper, smashed it with a small tea hammer, took out some and put it on the silver tea mill and grinded it finely, sieved the crushed tea powder with a tea luo, put it into a scalded building lamp, injected a little boiling water, and slowly prepared it with a tea whisk. Zhao Zhen's skills are skillful and his movements are gentle, Ye Pei looked at it with appreciation, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Zhao Zhen handed the tea to Ye Pei, only to see that the black and purple tea cup was covered with snow-white tea milk soup flowers, and the cyan tea soup was faintly exposed underneath.

Ye Pei said: "Sixth brother, you are doing really well. Then he fiddled with the tea cup in his hand and said, "This building cup is also good-looking." ”

"It's a golden-hazel partridge spot." Zhao Zhen said, his hands kept moving.

"Oh, no wonder it's so beautiful, it's really the same color as the kiln, and the kiln is changing." Ye Pei carefully admired this teacup.

Jianzhan is a black glazed tea cup fired by Fuzhou Jianyao, with a simple and vigorous shape. When ordering tea, white milk flowers float in the black tea cup, which is a strong contrast and contrasts with each other, so the building cup is sought after by literati and ink writers. The markings on this building lamp are caused by the kiln change, so there is no exactly the same building lamp in the world. Because the kiln firing temperature is high, the kiln becomes uncontrollable, the striped rabbit hair is already a fine product in the pot, and the partridge spot shaped like a partridge feather, because the firing technology requirements are higher, it is a treasure in the building pot, and the golden-threaded partridge spot with more delicate spots is the best in the pot, and it is rare in the palace.

Ye Pei said: "This tea reminds me of a poem: Old Dragon Tuan, True Phoenix Marrow, Point to the Future." In the rabbit lamp, the taste of the tongue is back in an instant. Wake up Qingzhou to engage, retreat from the nightmar millions, and can't dream of the balcony. The breeze in the armpits, I want to go to Penglai. ”

Zhao Zhen laughed brightly when he heard Ye Pei's words, "Pei'er is still as smart as when she was a child, full of economy and exports. "Zhao Zhen used the same method to cook one for himself, and the two of them sat at the tea table and tasted tea." This building lamp seems to be bulky, but it has a sense of clumsiness and simplicity. ”

Zhao Zhen took a sip of tea and said: "When I was a child, I saw my father teaching Zhao Yunxi to order tea, and I don't know how envious I was. He didn't teach me, maybe because I was a concubine and didn't have the status to learn the essence of tea. At that time, my uncle (referring to Ye Pei's father) promised me to teach me to order tea, but it didn't come true. I still have this craft in the palace, and the emperor taught me. ”

Ye Pei listened to Zhao Zhen's words, and he didn't know what it was like. She looked up at Zhao Zhen, she was no longer the sensitive and weak child she was when she was a child, but he still had a sensitive heart, and what she lacked when she was a child couldn't make up for it when she grew up.

"I remember that I just entered the palace at that time, and I was so afraid of the eldest lady." Zhao Zhen continued: "She is very strict with me, stricter than my father. Every day, I have to recite until I am ugly, and I get up again in the morning. She had to check my homework every day, and if I made the slightest mistake, I would be disciplined. I had a wheezing problem and I didn't taste meat for three months. But I still insisted, because I thought that one day when I became emperor, I would have a higher status than my father, and everyone in the world would obey me. If I would like to see her every day, I can see her every day. You know, I don't even know how I survived those lonely years. In this palace where we are sitting now, I am alone, and I dream that you will sit across from me, eating the snacks I have taken, and tasting the tea I ordered, just like now, sitting all the time, every day. However, at that time, for nearly ten years, I was the only one here, and every night, watching a round of moon shadows rise and fall, watching the blood-colored morning sun appear in the east. But tonight, Chang'e in the middle of the moon has mercy on me, let me realize my dream, and let you sit opposite me as I dreamed of. ”

Ye Pei listened carefully, this is really a sad story.

"Do you remember the time when I went back to the palace and saw what you said?" Zhao Zhen asked suddenly.

"What?"

Zhao Zhen continued, "That time I went back to the palace, and during the meal, Zhao Yunxi laughed at me and gobbled it up, saying that I didn't have the demeanor of an emperor. I was very aggrieved, I hadn't eaten fish and shrimp for months at that time, I missed the taste of drunk shrimp so much, only you helped me peel shrimp. I recounted the strictness of the eldest lady, and Cho Yunxi said that I couldn't stand the suffering, and it would be difficult to become atmospheric in the future, only my aunt (referring to Ye Pei's mother) comforted me and said to me: 'Take your time, everything will be fine.' 'Pei'er, do you remember what I said afterward?' ”

Ye Pei remembered the situation at that time, Zhao Yunxi's ridicule, Zhao Yingying's grievances, and Zhao Yingyi said a sentence after that, which made Ye Pei blush now, and he said: "In the future, I will marry Pei'er's cousin as the queen!" ”

Zhao Yunxi sneered: "How is it possible! I have a marriage contract with my cousin, and she will marry me as a princess in the future! ”

Zhao Ying said seriously: "So what? Don't say that you haven't married yet, even if she is already married to you, when I become the emperor, I can snatch her over. The eldest lady married Gong Mei first, met the first emperor, and married the first emperor. ”

The two mothers present at the time were all panicked, "Sixth brother, don't talk nonsense!" ”

Although Zhao Yingfu no longer spoke, that determination was left until now. When Zhao Ying ascended the throne as emperor and became Zhao Zhen, what he said back then was still his haunting oath!

Ye Pei thought of this, his heart was sour, everyone only thought that scene was a child's mind, cute and ridiculous, but now that he thinks about it, he has infinite melancholy.

Ye Pei said with a gloomy face: "Don't talk nonsense. ”

Zhao Zhen looked at Ye Pei's expression and knew that she had understood what she was referring to, so she stopped talking. The two of them sat opposite each other and drank tea silently.

After a pause, Zhao Zhen suddenly remembered the meeting of Jin Mingchi that day, and asked, "The person I met in Jin Mingchi that day was you, Sister Pei'er?" You were wearing men's clothes that day. ”

Ye Pei was stunned, remembered, and said embarrassedly: "Oh, it's true, I was in a bad mood at the time, and I didn't take a closer look at who the rich and noble son was." ”

Zhao Zhen asked: "Sister Pei'er cried really sadly that day, what grievances did you encounter?" ”

Ye Pei blushed and said, "It's nothing." I also lost my temper with my sixth brother at the time, I'm sorry! ”

Zhao Zhen said: "I think that's fate, so I'm destined to meet you!" I will never let you be wronged again. Ye Pei listened, his face turned even redder, and he looked down at the teacup in his hand embarrassedly, and the two were silent for a while.

Zhao Zhen broke the silence, stood up and said to Ye Pei, "Pei'er, you come, I'll show you this." ”

The two of them came to the back study, where rows of bookshelves were lined with neat thread-bound books.

Zhao Zhen wanted to reach a silk brocade box on the top of the shelf, and tried it, but it was a big difference.

"Wait until I'm going to get the ladder." Zhao Zhen shook his head and said.

"No, I'll do it." Without waiting for Zhao Zhen to react, Ye Pei reached out and climbed a corner of the Nanmu bookshelf, and a "dry land onion" jumped three or four feet high to get the brocade box.

"Pei'er, be careful!" Zhao Zhen didn't know that Ye Pei was armed with martial arts, and he was afraid that she would fall, so he raised his arms and hugged Ye Pei.

"Oops! You're out of the way. Ye Pei was not in any danger, but the middle of the bookshelf was narrow, Ye Pei was hanging in the air, and was dragged by Zhao Zhen, but he fell on Zhao Zhen, and the two of them landed on the ground. Ye Pei held the brocade box in his hand, and threw his body into Zhao Zhen's arms, Zhao Zhen fell heavily to the ground, holding Ye Pei tightly with both arms. When Zhao Zhen landed, he only felt that his arms were soft and comfortable, and he was stunned for a while. Ye Pei's body was light, and he rolled over and stood up like a tanuki.

Ye Pei got up and saw that Zhao Zhen was still lying in place, thinking that he had fallen hard, and hurriedly put down the brocade box to help Zhao Zhen.

"Sixth brother, are you okay?" Ye Pei complained while helping Zhao Zhen bounce the soil: "Oh, it's good if you don't help me, you see, we both fell down now." ”

Zhao Zhen saw that Ye Pei was fine, regardless of his pain, he stood up and opened the brocade box with his hand, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, it didn't break." ”

Ye Pei came over to take a look, but it was just a "grinding and drinking" doll, and said disdainfully: "What kind of baby am I, you don't care if you fall or not." ”

Zhao Zhen said: "This is not an ordinary grinding and drinking, you take a closer look." ”

Ye Pei took it over and took a closer look, and she suddenly realized that this was the grinding music she gave to Zhao Zhen casually back then. He had just entered the palace that year, and when he returned to the palace, he cried for some reason, and she casually stuffed the grinding music that was playing in his hand.

"Is this the mill I gave you?" Ye Pei asked.

"Yes, this is the grinding music you gave me, I have always cherished it, I watched it every day when I was a child, I heard that you are gone, I am afraid that I will see things and think about people and put it on the shelf." Zhao Zhen's eyes flickered and said, "Do you remember what you said to me at that time?" You say speak to it when I'm lonely, and tell it when I'm wronged. I did this in the first year of returning to the palace, I had something to say to it, and I was comforted by it, and my mood was really much better, as if I had a friend made of mud by my side. ”

Ye Pei felt sorry for her sixth brother who was so lonely and miserable, as peers, they all endured different pains.

At this moment, the bolt of the door sounded, and someone pushed the door from outside the hall, but could not open it, so he asked: "Official, but what happened?" I heard a clang. ”

Zhao Zhen knew that it was the voice of the little eunuch Huang Jinbao who served him. Zhao Zhen came to the outside room and replied to the door: "It's okay, I'll take the book and drop a copy, it's okay, you go down." ”

"Yes!"

Ye Pei heard the little eunuch slowly walking away.