Fourteen saw that my face was wrong, and asked, "Who chewed the root of the tongue in front of Eniang?" Concubine De sat upright like a bodhisattva and said, "You don't care who chews the root of the tongue, just say whether it's true or not." Fourteen Dao: "Will E-Niang look forward to Huang Ama pampering the new concubine?" The reason is the same..."I was shocked by Fourteen's answer and my eyes fell, the New Year's Eve is going to add fuel to the fire, and then look at Fourteen, he looked indifferent, calm as if he was talking about the way of Confucius and Mencius.

Concubine De breathed in her throat, choking so much that she couldn't speak. She usually loves Fourteen the most, and feels that he is her private property, and her daughter-in-law is an "outsider", and she doesn't want Fourteen to talk back to herself for her daughter-in-law, and she is sad and annoyed in her heart.

The two of them quarreled, and I acted as an ostrich, silently drinking tea and eating snacks, and kept replaying in my head: I didn't hear anything, I didn't know anything...

The fourth master opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Eniang, my son has something to ask you for help." ”

Concubine De showed a manic look and said, "Let's talk about it." "The fourth master was raised by Empress Xiaoyiren, and when he became an adult, although he was filial piety under the knees of Concubine De, the gap between mother and son was only deep. The fourth master upheld politeness and distance in front of Concubine De. And Concubine De, treat him as hard as he does to fourteen.

The fourth master said: "Yuechan (Sifujin) is about to give birth, but I am afraid that I will not be able to take care of a few children in the house for most of the year, Hongli's biological mother is Gege in the house, and her status is low, and her son does not dare to let her raise her." After thinking about it, only handing it over to E-Niang was the most reassuring for her son, so she wanted to ask E-Niang to take care of Gu Hongli for a while. ”

As she gets older, the less opportunities for Concubine De to sleep, when the fourteen couples lived in the elder brother's house in the past, they went to Yonghe Palace almost every day to ask for peace, but they also consumed a lot of boredom. Now that he has left the palace at the fourteenth, Kangxi is rarely lucky, except for daily palace affairs every day, and when he is free, he feels that his life is getting harder and harder day by day. Hearing that the fourth master said that he wanted to send Hongli into the palace, Concubine De was overjoyed and said, "You think well, I like Hongli's child in my heart, you can send it." ”

The fourth master then got up and said respectfully: "I'm tired of worrying about my mother, and when Hongli's cough gets better, my son will send him into the palace." ”

Concubine De nodded, relieving her displeasure just now.

After dinner in Yonghe Palace, Fourteen and I took Ah Xing out of the palace and returned home. There was a big sun with white flowers in the sky, but the air was so cold that it could freeze when you spit. Ah Xing fell asleep, and I wrapped her tightly in a blanket and carried her in my arms in the carriage. There was a guard of honor in front of us to open the way, and there were guards to escort us in the back, and ordinary people could not get close to us at all.

Fourteen was dressed in a black fox end mask, standing high on his horse, and because he was in the downtown area, he rode very slowly. Today's New Year, there are a lot of people on the street, there are many vendors, prostitutes soliciting customers, and a dazzling array of small stalls and shops, bustling and crowding the entire road. I smelled the aroma of fried hemp tofu with sheep's tail oil, and my mouth instantly began to secrete saliva, and I couldn't stop it.

I lifted the curtain and shouted, "Fourteen." Fourteen was next to him, he didn't know what was going on, he raised his hand, and someone passed back and forth: "Stop..." I looked up at him, pointed to a vendor on the street, and said, "I want to eat fried sesame tofu, you buy it for me, and by the way, buy a few more sauce elbows..."

Fourteen broke his face and said, "Can't you go back and let the cook do it?" ”

I said, "Authentic outside!" He asked Minqiu again for a hanging of copper, and said, "Sauce elbow is twenty pieces of silver for one, and I want four." Stir-fried hemp tofu is ten wen a bowl, two bowls. Then he commanded, "Go!" "The only time Fourteen bought something was when he bought a sack of ginger from his old man in Yuquan Town. Actually, he has a shadow, and he is afraid that he will not be able to buy it to my liking and will be made fun of by me. Besides, how can he go to buy snacks in public, and lose face.

He raised his chin at Zhang Fangfang and said, "Did you hear Fujin's words?" Zhang Fangfang bowed and nodded, and said, "The slave knows, so I'll buy it." I came to the temperament and said coquettishly: "You go buy it, you buy it is more delicious." ”

Fourteen could not deny it, and said, "Isn't it the same for everyone who buys it?" Women really have a lot of things. ”

Will a little flirty die?

I pursed my lips and threw the curtain of the car in a sullen manner, too lazy to look at him. After a while, he knocked on the beam with a horsewhip, and Min Qiu hurriedly lifted the curtain of the car, only to see Fourteen holding the food box brought by the house in his hand, the food box was not covered, and the sauce elbow and fried sesame tofu in it were steaming, exuding an intoxicating fragrance. He didn't say a word, handed it to Minqiu and walked away.

Fourteen felt that his face was all lost today, and the dignified prince of the Qing Dynasty actually bought snacks for women on the street. He was so depressed that his face was so blue that Zhang Fangfang even slowed down his breathing by eight points. Fourteen turned over and got on the horse, clamped the horse's back with his legs, and slowly moved forward, Zhang Fangfang saw the situation, and then passed down: "Go..."

After only taking two steps, Fourteen suddenly changed his expression, as if he saw someone, and hurriedly said to Zhang Fangfang: "Don't stop." With that, he turned the horse's head around and ran to the side of the road. There were so many people on the road that Fourteen was afraid that the horse would kick people, so he couldn't indulge and run straight, and when he came to a bend, the person he was chasing finally disappeared.

He saw Elaine.

Perhaps, I misread it.

Ai Lian panted and hid in the crack of the house, and when she looked out again, she saw the majestic man standing on his horse and wandering. The vicissitudes of time have no trace on her face, but become more and more bewitching and beautiful. When the man walked away, two lines of crystal clear tears quietly fell from her grape-like black eyes. Wiping away the tears, turning two alleys, pushing open a narrow door, an old woman stepped forward, she took off the handkerchief on her face, showed her face, and said, "Granny Cai, is the second master awake?" ”

Mrs. Cai smiled and said, "The second master just asked where you went, and I replied that you went to the pharmacy to get the medicine." Ai Lian bowed her head and said expressionlessly: "Thank you." He turned around and went. provoked Mrs. Cai to mutter: "Good girl, why is it like a piece of ice..."After speaking, she shuddered and said, "It's so cold." ”

After entering the house, Ai Lian changed her clothes, washed her hands, took out the Chinese medicine and soaked it in spring water, and brought two pieces of mung bean cake, passed through the garden, and arrived at the courtyard of the second master. The thin man was dressed in white, leaning against the pillar, and when he heard the sound, he smiled and said, "Xiaowan, are you here?" Ai Lian hurriedly put the tea tray on the side of the horizontal stool, stepped forward to support the man, and said, "Second master, why did you come out?" ”

The second master fumbled and turned around, his eyes were wrapped in white cloth, obviously unable to see.

He said: "When you wake up after sleeping, you are not around, I am worried about you." ”

The corners of Ailian's mouth raised slightly, and said, "What do I have to worry about, I'm too worried." ”

The second master said: "I'm afraid that you will leave and will never come back." ”

Ai Lian led the second master to the house and said, "Your eyes are not good for a day, so Xiaowan will stay in the Nian Mansion for one more day." You only ate two bites of soup for dinner, are you hungry? I bought mung bean cake on the street, would you like to taste it? The second master snorted, in front of Ailian, he was like a baby, dependent, well-behaved.

After eating the pastries, the second master slept down, and a girl came over outside to say: "Miss Xiaowan, the uncle wants to see you." ”

Ai Lian agreed, and went out lightly, through the garden, and into the main gate compound. At this time, it was completely dark, and the winter night was freezing to the bones, and the lights under the four sides also showed a cold cold light. There are men practicing martial arts in the courtyard, and they suddenly withdraw their swords and stand under the red plum tree.

Ai Lian blessed her body and said, "Your Excellency is auspicious. ”

Nian Qianyao put the sword into the sheath, threw it to the guards, and said, "Go down." ”

Everyone retreated in unison, and there were only two people left in the courtyard. Nian Qianyao said: "Do you remember why I took you back to the house? Ai Lian said calmly: "I know, because the second master's eye was burned and he needs to be served by a medical woman..." Ai Lian was in pain, and took two steps back again and again, leaning against the plum tree, out of breath.

Nian Qianyao's eyes were angry, and he said, "It's good that you know, don't forget your identity." If you dare to seduce Shu Yao again, I will definitely kill you. Ai Lian was like a dead fish, let Nian Qianyao restrain her, she said hoarsely: "The second master loves me, and I can't help it." Nian Qianyao had three more points of strength in her hand, Ai Lian couldn't breathe, and instinctively began to struggle, the plum tree was shaken, and the crimson petals fell one after another, falling on her shoulders, neck, and robe.

Ai Lian felt that the blood in her whole body poured into her brain at the same time, her mind gradually dissipated, her eyes turned black for a while, and she grabbed a thought in a trance-Could it be... Are you going to die here today? I was not burned to death by fire in the firewood room of Wanyan Mansion, and I was not poisoned by poison in Tai Hospital... But he wanted to die in the hands of Nian Qianyao for no reason.

What's more, she also saved him.

It seemed that there was a sentence from the distant sky, "Big brother...", Nian Qianyao's hand was loosened, Ai Lian suddenly gasped, she coughed dryly several times, and her throat hurt like a hot charcoal fire. Nian Qianyao said in a low voice: "For the sake of that day, you saved me in Yuquan Mountain, I will spare you once, if you don't know the proportions again, you will bear the consequences." ”

Ai Lian glared at him fiercely, coughing violently.

Nian Qianyao changed his face and smiled at the woman who came slowly: "Little sister, what's the matter?" ”

While the two siblings were talking, Ai Lian crept away. Back in her cabin, she sat on the cold quilt and froze. If she hadn't secretly followed Fourteen and Rose to Yuquan Mountain that day, she would not have bumped into Nian Qianyao, who was bitten by a poisonous snake, and she would not have followed Nian Qianyao back to the capital to treat his second brother's eyes. Everything in the world seems to have a cycle of cause and effect, because she is still worried about the fourteenth in her heart, so she will inexplicably agree to return to the capital with Nian Qianyao. At that time, Nian Qianyao was a chief of guard who was responsible for the safety of the Fourteenth Master, Ailian, who actually returned to Beijing with the Fourteenth.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I took Ah Xing to accompany Concubine De in Yonghe Palace, and the fourteenth took Hongchun to a banquet in Qianqing Palace. The Thirteen Fujin Zhaojia clan has no mother-in-law and has nowhere to go, Concubine De is generous in the end, and invited the Zhaojia clan to celebrate the New Year in Yonghe Palace. In addition, Li Fangfujin on the fourth master's mansion, and a few little Gege, the house was full of laughter and laughter, but it was also lively.

After all, Li Fangfujin is one level lower, and he is a Han Chinese, and he has never spent the New Year in the palace, so he is very restrained. Concubine De asked the cook to roll out a pot of dough, made more than a dozen kinds of fillings, and asked us to make dumplings by ourselves. I didn't feel anything, since I married Fourteen, I have learned everything about serving tea, pouring water, cooking and cooking. Zhao Jia's is also good, clever and a quick learner. On the contrary, it is the Li family, who is clumsy and can't teach. I asked, "Have you never cooked for the fourth master?" Li Fangfujin smiled lightly and said, "The master said that it is not good to go to cold water, and there will be chilblains on the hands, so it will not look good." I pouted, I wanted to show off her favor!

Zhao Jiashi said: "The food and clothing of the thirteenth master are all handled by me, and I never let people handle it." I'm tired and tired, and I've never heard my master say that it's not good to go to cold water. It can be seen that "a wife is not as good as a concubine", this is true. "It is clearly said that he is a wife, and the Li family is a concubine, not on the same level.

Li's face was angry, his lips trembled, but he didn't dare to reply.

I silently praised Zhaojia's family in my heart, and I can't get used to seeing the concubine enter the house.

At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, the feast was over, and everyone was going to leave the palace. It was snowing heavily, and Minqiu held an umbrella for me, and I hugged Ah Xing regardless of the depth of the snow and the shallowness, and went straight to the outside of the palace. Ah Xing leaned on my shoulder and said, "Eniang, I'm cold." I quickened my steps and said, "You hold on to Eniang's neck and don't let go." "Ah Xing, obediently, don't move. When I was about to get to the gate of the palace, Fourteen greeted him, took Ah Xing, pulled out the cloak and wrapped me in his arms, and said, "Is it cold?" ”

I followed his steps, hid on his chest, and said, "Cold." ”

When I arrived outside the palace, there was already a carriage waiting, and Fourteen put Ah Xing into the car first, and then carried me up, took out a wine gourd from his arms, and said, "Ginger soup drives away the cold, drink it while it's hot." It's hard for him to be careful, I nodded, opened the lid and drank two sips by myself, and let Ah Xing drink it, it was really warm, and my whole body was comfortable. Hongchun was young, so he let his grandmother fall asleep in his arms. There was a charcoal fire in the carriage, and I changed out of my snow-soaked coat for Ah Xing, took off my shoes and socks, and roasted my little feet hot.

The carriage ran very fast, but it arrived at the house at ten o'clock, and it was still in time to set off firecrackers and fireworks.

The two children have been clamoring to watch the fireworks since the morning, and when it came to this point, they couldn't hold back and fell asleep. I couldn't bear to wake them up, so I left Hongchun to sleep in my room and ordered someone to pass a word to Fang Fujin. I kept vigil with Fourteen, and it wasn't until twelve o'clock that the firecrackers were set off and I went to bed. After wearing it in ancient times, I was ready to go to bed at seven or eight o'clock, and rarely stayed up late. Today I waited until twelve o'clock, and I ran around inside and out, and in the early hours of the morning, I couldn't sleep.

Fourteen saw me tossing and turning and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

I said, "Insomnia." ”

Fourteen sneered and said, "Do you still know what insomnia is?" You sleep fast every time. "Indeed, sometimes when the two of them roll the sheets, he is still in the mood, and I am already so tired that I fall asleep. I turned to the side, hugged his waist, which had no fat at all, and had eight pack abs, and said, "I'm a little scared." ”

Thinking about it later, the first time I wore it to the Qing Dynasty, it was also the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve. The last time I was stabbed back by Ailian, and then I wore it back, all in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve. But Fourteen didn't know any of that.

He asked, "What are you afraid of?" ”

I couldn't say it, I couldn't explain it, so I said, "I'm afraid I'll be separated from you." Fourteen squinted and smiled, turned around, met me face to face, dragged me into his arms, hugged me tightly, and said lazily: "I won't be separated, I'll sleep with you in my arms." His lips pressed lightly on my forehead and said, "Don't think nonsense, go to sleep." I hummed, closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Actually, I didn't sleep all night. Didn't dare to sleep.

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