In the middle of the night, there were snowflakes, and I stumbled back to the west courtyard, vomited four or five times, and when my stomach was empty and my brain was empty, I fell asleep. Time flies, the New Year has passed in a blink of an eye, and it is spring. When I dreamed back in the middle of the night, I often thought about how I could win a dead man, and my head was broken, only to realize what it meant to be "powerless".

Fourteen never mentioned anything about Elaine again, let alone revealed any trace to me.

But I know that she has always lived in the depths of his heart.

The imperial examination in March, the eldest brother and Xiaohai have been preparing for this for several years, Ama is very concerned, and repeatedly told me in the letter to let me probe the wind on the fourteenth pillow, if there is any movement in the Qianqing Palace, I must immediately inform the family. Fourteen has read all the letters written to me, so even if I don't say it, Fourteen knows it.

After noon on the first day of the new year, Fourteen had dinner in my room, when the fire dragon had stopped, and it was a little chilly. I ordered someone to boil the broth with pork bones with wolfberry mushrooms and corn, cut the beef and mutton into thin slices, and then prepared spicy sauce, chutney, sesame paste, garlic sauce, shrimp sauce and coriander foam, cumin, fried peppercorns, soy sauce, etc., and set up two large tables, the soup turned white, and the hot mist was rolling.

Under my tutelage, Fourteen pairs are familiar with hot pot. He loves sesame sauce and I love spicy sauce, although the taste is different, it does not affect the pleasant atmosphere of our hot pot at all. Taking advantage of his good mood, I asked, "The scientific examination is coming soon, do you think this year's exam questions are difficult?" Fourteen took a sip of the Wang Laoji I made for him (the herbal tea I asked for the imperial doctor) and said, "How do I know? I have never participated in the imperial examination. "Sure enough, it's the emperor's cub, and he has the confidence to speak!

I said, "You hang out with the chief examiner and deputy examiner every day, so you don't have a bit of a mouth?" ”

Fourteen was categorical and said, "No." After eating, he had to go out of the palace to run errands, Minqiu brought a civilian robe, I waited for him to change, and asked, "Are you coming over tonight?" Fourteen snorted and went without speaking. Since Kangxi relieved himself and allowed the round room, everyone in the palace thought that I and Fourteen had already shared the same room. Concubine De stared at my belly when she was fine, as if she could stare at a big fat grandson. And on the fifteenth day of the fourteenth month and the fifteenth day of the month, they stayed in my room according to the rules, but they did not touch me.

Out of the palace gate, the fourteenth first went to the household to find the eighth master, but the eighth master did not find it, but he ran into Wanyan Luocha.

Wanyan Luocha clasped his fists and saluted, and said, "Say hello to the Fourteenth Master." Fourteen hurriedly helped him up and said, "Amma doesn't need to be polite. Then he asked, "How is Amma doing lately?" Luo Cha smiled: "Weichen is very good, Xie Fourteenth Master cares." Looking at no one around, he shivered and took out an origami paper from his cuff, forced it into Fourteen's hand, and said in a low voice: "The prescription that Wei Wei Eniang asked for in the temple said that if you eat it, you can give birth to a son..." ”

Walking to the Internal Affairs Office, the eighth master was talking to the head of the Tai Hospital.

The eighth master smiled: "Fourteen, you came just in time, I have something to do with you." The master got up and greeted Fourteen, and Fourteen sat down and said, "What's the matter?" The eighth master said: "Ten days later, it will be the day of the imperial examination, and I originally wanted the Tai Hospital to allocate the imperial doctor and the medical woman to the examination room to diagnose and treat the pulse of the candidates, in case of emergency." Unexpectedly, Lord Wang said just now that Huang Ama has been slightly tired recently, and the imperial doctor is inseparable, coupled with the Sichuan plague, many people from the imperial hospital have been sent. ”

Fourteen Dao: "What does the starling mean, is it for me to select doctors and doctors?" The eighth master bowed his head and said, "It's not a big deal, but it's extremely important, don't look down on it." You and slowly practice to manage things, if there is anything you don't understand, ask Lao Jiu, ask me. Fourteen can't look down on it, but when he heard the words of the eighth master, he readily agreed: "Okay." ”

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