The emperor's southern tour does not mean that he does not have to deal with the government affairs, on the contrary, those important excerpts have to be sent from the capital to Jiangning by 800 miles, and then sent back to the capital by 800 miles after being approved by the emperor.

It snowed for the past two days, and Kangxi's originally planned inspection had to be put on hold due to weather conditions.

Thinking of having dinner with Cao Yue, Kangxi hurriedly finished the folds before dinner, and then rushed to Xiyuan without delay.

As a result, as soon as the person arrived in Xiyuan, before Liang Jiugong sang the report, Kangxi saw three people kneeling in the courtyard with sharp eyes.

Liang Jiugong hurriedly asked in front of Kangxi: "Why are you kneeling here?" ”

Now it is the time when the weather is cold, and when the teaching grandmother and others knelt outside for a long time, they were already so cold that their faces were pale, and their teeth trembled when they returned to Liang Jiugong's words: "Yes... It's a slave... They made Zhao Concubine Niangniang unhappy. ”

Teach Mama to be resentful because Cao Yue gave her face, so she said such specious things in front of Kangxi at this moment.

The other two people were decent and didn't teach Mama to be big, so they naturally taught Mama what she said.

Seeing that the three of them were of the same caliber, Liang Jiugong quietly went to look at Kangxi's face.

Kangxi was clear in his heart about the careful thoughts contained in the words that he said to teach Mama, his narrow phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and he flicked his sleeves and stepped on the steps: "Since Concubine Zhao asked you to kneel, then you will kneel." ”

No matter what the truth is, after all, today is the day when he canonized Concubine Zhao, and it is impossible for him to lose face to Concubine Zhao in front of a few minions on such a day.

Teaching Mama's already pale face added a touch of blue ash, and she regretted it in her heart, and kept chattering that it was over.

Liang Jiugong noticed the expression of teaching his mother, and sneered in his heart, he did his own sin, he couldn't live, a slave and maid was a little decent in front of the emperor, and in the end there was a difference between master and servant.

This is Kangxi's second time coming to Xiyuan, but it is the first time he has stepped into Cao Yue's boudoir.

As soon as he entered, Kangxi was not in a hurry to find Cao Yue, but looked around and looked around at the layout of the room, there was a small study room to the east, there were hundreds of books on the shelves, and there was an open box next to the desk for writing, which contained many written notes.

Kangxi picked up the above one casually, only to see that the book 'Even though there are thousands of styles, who to talk to', a hairpin flower that symbolizes the gentle and talented woman is written quite stylishly.

After staring at the flower paper for a while, Kangxi folded the flower paper in half and stuffed it into the cuffs, turned around and walked west, passing through the chessboard and the west tip of the Jiaowei piano, and then bypassed a pair of four screens with exquisite embroidery, and the two-step effort arrived at the Xinuan Pavilion, which is the place where Cao Yue stays most often in the cold winter.

There are still three Cao Yue's master and servant in the warm pavilion, but at this moment Cao Yue is lying on the soft couch, with a blanket on her lap and reading a book, An Ning is sitting on a small pestle with an embroidered bandage and embroidering flowers, An Ping has set up a table in a well-lit place next to the window, and carefully takes care of Cao Yue's new clothes.

The three of them had their own things to do, and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious, but this harmonious atmosphere dissipated the moment Kangxi stepped in.

The two maids knelt on the ground nervously to say goodbye, Cao Yue looked at the person in a daze, until the book in his hand fell to the ground and made a muffled sound, Cao Yue came back to his senses, and hurriedly lifted the blanket, stepped on the soft satin embroidered shoes and saluted: "Your Majesty." ”

Kangxi smiled lightly and stepped forward to help Cao Yue up, and picked up the book that fell to the ground by the way: "You are idle." ”

He was so busy that he didn't even have time to drink more hot tea, so he thought that he could come over early and see how she was busy in order to welcome him, but it turned out that only three minions were sent to meet him to block him, and he hid in the warm pavilion to hide himself.

Thinking about it this way, Kangxi's mood was a little bad.

swaggered and occupied Cao Yue's soft couch, not to mention, and also looked like a guilty posture: "Liang Jiugong didn't tell you that I would come?" ”

Cao Yue turned to Kangxi, her eyes drooping slightly: "I said." ”

When she turned around, she saw that the two maids were still kneeling, and she lightly ordered: "Why don't you hurry up and come in with tea?" ”

The two maids bowed their heads, responded in silence, and quickly walked out of the warm pavilion.

Kangxi didn't stop it, and seeing that there were only the two of them left in the warm pavilion, he immediately snorted and said, "It seems that my concubine Zhao is still a master who feels sorry for the slave." ”

There were words in the words, so that Cao Yue couldn't help but lift his eyes and look at Kangxi, his dark eyes were cold: "The emperor has something to say bluntly, but the concubines are stupid and can't understand the emperor's words." ”

Cao Yue didn't really understand, but he was clearly pretending to be confused.

Talking around the bend is a common problem of the emperor, and it is also a common problem of the family, because they feel that it is not a good thing to be able to make people go around the bend and say the meaning of the words.

Kangxi, as the emperor, usually said that if he went around the bend, someone had to follow him, and he had to go through the trouble to explain it to him.

Cao Yue was also the first person he met who asked him not to detour.

Kangxi smiled and complied with her intentions: "In this case, I asked directly, a few minions kneeling in the courtyard, but did they make you unhappy?" ”

Just now, he didn't call the shots for those minions, and asked them to get up, so as to protect the face of Concubine Zhao in front of them, but when he was carrying the minions on his back, he was still unhappy in his heart.

It depends on the master to beat the dog, and those minions are still the people in front of the emperor after all.

Cao Yue turned her head and looked out, and did a great job of hiding the sarcasm in the depths of her eyes: "Maybe they are willing to kneel in the courtyard in the winter, and it is not the concubines who want them to kneel, what does it have to do with the concubines?" ”

Kangxi didn't think that Cao Yue would tell lies to deceive him, so he was a little stunned, and remembered the specious words that taught his grandmother, and a wave of anger rose in his heart for no reason, what an old slave.

At this time, the anger in Kangxi's heart was transformed into a weakness of heart for Cao Yue, he reached out to hold Cao Yue's slightly cool soft white soft wattle, pulled the person to his side and sat down with a slight force, looking at Cao Yue's beautiful little face full of displeasure, and coaxed softly:

"Okay, don't be angry, I just asked casually, and I don't mean anything else, don't take it to heart, huh?"

Cao Yue was so close to Kangxi suddenly, the tips of her ears were visibly pink, and she twitched her hand uncomfortably but didn't twitch, so she had to turn her head away and pull out a sneer: "The concubine will not go to her heart, after all, the concubine's heart is very small, and she can't fit many irrelevant people and irrelevant things." ”

This sentence of irrelevant people, irrelevant things, obviously means something.

Kangxi's good words and coaxing are already rare, but he has repeatedly touched soft nails here with Cao Yue in the past two days, and he was immediately a little annoyed.

He stretched out his free hand and grabbed Cao Yue's chin, turned Cao Yue's head forcefully, and looked at her with four eyes: "How long do you want to deal with me like this?" ”

Kangxi thinks that he has a bad temper, and he can tolerate a woman playing tricks on him to the extreme, not to mention being swept away again and again.

Cao Yue sighed in her heart, it seems that the emperor's patience with her has come to an end. She didn't know how tolerant Kangxi was of the people next to her, so she didn't take it lightly.

Holding her breath, her eyes turned red instantly, and she tried to break free of Kangxi's hand that was clamping her chin, but in vain: "What the emperor is saying, the concubines don't understand." ”

The man's hand was very strong, and Cao Yue struggled for a while, and after a while, two pinched red marks appeared on Cao Yue's chin.

Seeing this, Kangxi unconsciously unloaded two points of strength, Cao Yue took advantage of this to break free of Kangxi's hand, slid off the soft couch, and knelt down: "It is the fault of the concubine to provoke the emperor's anger, the concubine is guilty, please punish the emperor." ”

The atmosphere in the warm pavilion suddenly became tense, An Ning and An Ping prepared tea and waited outside the screen, hearing the movement inside, their feet were like nails, and they couldn't move half a step.

Cao Yue knelt on the ground and resisted the sense of oppression that Kangxi exerted on her.

At this critical juncture, she must calm down and not show timidity, whoever speaks first will fall behind, and it will be difficult to turn over in the future.

I don't know how long it took, Cao Yue heard a soft sigh above her head: "I am an ordinary son or a ninety-five honor, aren't they all the people who played the piano with you in the peach forest that day, as for what identity it is, is it really that important in your heart?" ”

Kangxi rubbed his forehead helplessly, he really didn't understand the mind of the woman in front of him.

Or he actually understood in his heart, but he just wanted to force Cao Yue to admit what he said last night in front of him.

Cao Yue looked at Kangxi in surprise, her reddish eyes were full of panic, as if she wanted to ask Kangxi why she could say that.

Kangxi turned the auspicious cloud pattern wrench on his thumb uncomfortably: "I accidentally heard it last night." ”

Listening to the corner of the wall is so fresh and refined, only the cheeky Kangxi can say it.

Cao Yue was stunned for a moment, two lines of tears slipped down her cheeks, and pear blossoms brought rain: "Since the emperor heard it, he should know what the concubine wants, and what the concubine wants is just a simple and comfortable feeling." ”

Tears blurred her vision, Cao Yue closed her eyes, and tears were squeezed out of her eyes: "But you are the emperor, so you are destined to ask for what your concubines want, it's just an extravagant hope." ”

Cao Yue indirectly admitted last night's words, which made Kangxi's heart soften.

Looking at the more obvious marks on both sides of the woman's chin in front of him and her sad and weeping appearance, Kangxi unconsciously forgot the anger at the beginning, and replaced it with pity for the beauty's sadness.

He leaned forward and helped the person up and hugged him by his side, and gently wiped the tears on Cao Yue's face with his thumb: "Don't cry anymore, obviously I see that you are not stupid, why do you just admit death?" If you can't get out of a dead end, isn't it yourself who is embarrassed? ”

"Since you like to be simple and comfortable, how about I allow you to treat me like an ordinary son when you get along with me in private?"

Cao Yue seemed to be moved, with joy and some worry in her eyes: "But, but teach Mama that the emperor is the emperor, and the concubines need to be in awe of you, obey everything, and not violate the ......."

She is not a person who repays grievances with virtue, since she taught Mama to give her eye medicine first, then she will return a tooth for a tooth, I hope she can only bear it as a slave.

Kangxi snorted: "It's just a minion's words, you don't have to take it to heart, you just need to remember what I said." ”

What kind of awe and obedience, if Concubine Zhao has also become the same as the harem concubine, then what does it mean?

After some obvious entanglement, Cao Yue finally nodded hesitantly: "The concubine listens to the emperor." ”

After all, the emperor has said that at this point, it is impossible for her not to go down the steps, otherwise she will completely anger people, and she will be the one who suffers.

The tense atmosphere in the warm pavilion dissipated, and the two people outside the screen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and when they quickly went to the pantry to change the tea and came back to serve tea, they saw that their girl's attitude towards the emperor had changed from alienation to closer.