The snow is dark, and the sparse shadows of the dead branches fall on the green screen window, and when the wind passes, it makes a loud noise, leaving a cold oblique light. The room was warm, fourteen dressed in bright yellow thin forged bedclothes, hugged me in his arms, and said leisurely: "How come? The ones who kicked and kicked were all boys. I was not very happy in my heart, lowered my hand and sighed: "If you have another daughter, E-Niang will definitely force you to marry Xingege." Fourteen glanced at me and said with a smile: "Don't think about it, if you really give birth to a daughter, it will be the same as Ah Xing, she is a good child of the master." Listening to his words, my heart was sweet, wrapped around his waist, pressed against his chest, and dreamed peacefully.

Shi Chang, the newly favored Shi Chang in the palace, was celebrating her birthday, and in order to celebrate, Kangxi instructed the brothers to think of a way to make her happy. Fourteen sat on the kang and complained: "Huang Ama is getting older and more confused, and he has to surprise our brothers to celebrate his life for a concubine." I smashed the walnuts with a small silver hammer and said with a smile: "Aren't you also making a big fuss on my birthday?" ”

Fourteen said with a look of disdain: "How can she compare with you? ”

I stuffed the walnut meat into his mouth and said, "You, don't talk about this outside, Shi Chang is now the heart of Huang Ama, and you have to be polite." Fourteen said while chewing: "Be polite, Huang Ama can't think of a way by himself, let us brothers think, what is it called!" "I remembered that in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", when King Guojun celebrated Zhen Huan's birthday, he baked a pool of lotus flowers, and moved Zhen Huan so much that he couldn't forget it for the rest of his life, so he happily told the idea to Fourteen. Fourteen had a gloomy face, but he was afraid that he didn't spray me with walnut dregs, he said: "It takes ten days and a half months to make such a big move in the imperial garden, and there are many people in the palace, how can you hide it?" Whether it's a surprise or not, if the lotus flower doesn't bloom at that time, Huang Ama won't scold me to death. ”

He sat on the kang and pondered for a while, then said, "Why don't you send a set of jade jewelry, what do you think?" ”

I shook my head and said, "Shi Chang has been favored for several months, and he must have been rewarded a lot for wearing it, and I am afraid that he will not look down on jewelry and the like." Fourteen was so impatient that he kicked off his shoes, lay on his side on the side of the kang, and said, "That's it, I'll go and ask the starling brother later." When he went out in the afternoon, I called Min Qiu and said, "If you have a chance to fulfill a wish now, what would you hope for?" ”

Min Qiu half-squatted beside the pedal, lightly pounded my legs for me, pondered for a long time, and then said: "If I can, I hope to reincarnate, no longer be a slave, and be able to marry openly..." I gave me a handful of words and said gently, "I asked you, where is the sin?" ”

Since the last Wu Gege oleander incident, Minqiu has become extremely cautious, I have not found a chance to comfort her, and now when I mentioned her identity, I said: "Although you are my family's slave, I have always treated you as a sister. There is already a successor to Fujin in the family, even if you marry in the past, you are just a concubine, it is better to marry an ordinary family and be the mother of a house. ”

Min Qiu wanted to cry when she heard this, and said: "Slave maid, slave maid also knows, but in my heart, I still miss him." ”

I said: "If you really love you, you will never let you succumb to be a slave in the Baylor Mansion, the last time the fourteenth beat him in the palace, but he didn't dare to mention you in front of the emperor, it can be seen that it is not worth your heart and lungs for him." Don't worry, I will let the Fourteenth Master take care of you, whether it is a guard, an imperial doctor, a scholar, or an official, if it is good, I will let you marry. ”

When Min Qiu saw that I was planning for her marriage, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Fujin treats the slave and maid sincerely, but the slave and maid were almost bewitched by Wu Gege, really... It is a sin that deserves death. I said, "You can find out that you are lost, and you did not help Wu Gege to murder me, for me, it is a great luck." And he said, "Get up quickly, it's cold on the ground." Min Qiu wiped her tears, thanked her, and stood up.

When I returned home on the fourteenth night, I ordered someone to cook a sauerkraut fish hot pot, and then served enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, tender winter melons, eel slices, duck gizzards and other side dishes under the hot pot, and set up a big table. He drank and I drank freshly squeezed orange juice, and the two of them were sweating profusely, and their stomachs were swollen, so they put down their chopsticks and walked along the corridor. I wrapped the white fox fur plain brocade scarlet peony pattern cloak, holding the hand of fourteen and walking slowly, the yard was covered with thick snow, and there were scattered snowflakes in the air.

Fourteen: "Did the little guy kick you?" ”

I held my stomach up, looked pregnant, and said, "No, he's asleep." He asked again: "What did the eighth master say about Shi Chang's birthday?" "Fourteen Dao: "The starling brother said that Shi Chang had worked as an errand in the house of the concubine before, and he loved embroidery very much, so he wanted to choose two high-quality birthday curtains from Su embroidery and Hunan embroidery." I said: "If Shi Changzai was still a palace maid, she would be grateful to receive the exquisite curtain, but now that her identity is different, those external luxury things probably can't attract her attention." ”

Fourteen Dao: "I and the starling have all figured out the melon seeds, there is really no way, Huang Ama can scold if he wants to." ”

I said, "I have a way, I don't know if it's good or not." The wind blew my robe and poured into my cloak, and I shuddered, and I took a fourteenth step to put on my hat and said, "This has nothing to do with you, don't bother with it." I laughed: "People say that you are stupid for three years when you are pregnant, and you don't even let me use your brain, so don't you have to be stupid for ten years?" Fourteen sneered: "Where did you learn bastard words, you have a lot of new things in your mouth." After a pause, he said, "Say it." ”

I said: "Shi Changzai is a Han Chinese, originally a cheap maid in the palace, although he once flew on the branch, his family background is like a brand on his body, and if there is nothing to do, he has to let people turn it out and laugh." In my opinion, it would be a great gift to let Huang Ama reward her father or brother with an official position, or to carry a flag for her. Fourteen's eyes flashed, his jaw thought for a moment, and said with a smile: "Good idea, but I don't know if Huang Ama agrees, raising the flag is a big deal..." ”

Fourteen put his forehead against my forehead and smiled, "It's really yours." ”

The next day, he rushed into the palace in a hurry, and then returned to the house with a dying breath. Zhang Fangfang had already asked someone to pass the word to the courtyard, saying that the master was in a very bad mood, and asked the people below to be careful in what they said and acted. I wondered, and helped Minqiu to the gate of the courtyard, because I was in a hurry to go out, so I didn't wear a cloak. Seeing that I was only wearing a jacket, he didn't say much, so he picked me up and ran back to the house quickly, and kept muttering: "Why did you run out naked, what should I do if I catch a cold?" I retorted, "What do you mean to be naked, I obviously wear two cotton robes." He changed into his civilian robes and took off his boots, and his face was indeed not good.

I asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Fourteen angrily raised the case a few times, and said: "The fourth brother first said that the promotion of Shi Changzai's father and brother was said, and he even said about the flag raising, which made me fall in front of Huang Ama and say "don't bother to think about it", which is really hateful! ”

The fourth master deserves to be the fourth master, and he is really always at the forefront of the revolution.

But losing to the fourth master is expected.

I helped him sit down, his braids were wet with snow, I untied the tape, carefully wiped it with a dry towel, and said with a smile: "The fourth master has always been resourceful, it is not strange that he can think of it." Fourteen clenched his fists and hammered the kang and said: "Only three days later, Shi Chang is in Fangfang, and I haven't got a little expression, Huang Ama will be to blame." "Hey, good princes, don't let them help with national affairs, I want to think about the birthday banquet of the concubine, Kangxi is really enough.

Speaking of Kangxi, I thought of the crown prince, so I asked, "What did the prince say?" ”

Fourteen said lightly: "I heard that the crown princess and Shi Chang have been in close contact recently, and there is nothing else." I thought about it for a while and said, "Why don't I enter the palace tomorrow and meet Shi Chang, maybe I can find out some news, and you can have an idea." Fourteen immediately disagreed, and he said: "On a cold and snowy day, you are pregnant again, how can you enter the palace?" I stumbled, but what should I do? ”

I braided him with soft fingers and said, "Don't worry, my little snack will be fine." Besides, I haven't asked E-Niang for a few months, so I should go to visit E-Niang. Seeing that I insisted on doing so, Fourteen said, "When the time comes, I will wait for you at Donghua Gate and accompany you to Yonghe Palace." I nodded and said, "Okay." ”

After another night of college, the next day it was sunny. I dressed tightly, helped Minqiu into the carriage, followed by dozens of guards and dozens of small girls, and walked towards the Forbidden City. When I arrived at Donghua Gate, I saw Fourteen rubbing his hands and standing under the palace wall against the cold wind, I lifted the curtain, he had already walked in front of me, hugged me and said, "Is it cold?" ”

I said, "There is a charcoal fire burning in the carriage, and it is not cold." He himself was cold, but he picked up my hands and put them in his cuffs, and said, "Fortunately, the sun is out, otherwise I really want you to go back." "The eunuch and maid of Yonghe Palace stepped forward to lead the way, and when I entered the palace gate, a warm sedan chair came and stopped in front of me. Fourteen said: "Eniang Xuan gave me a seat, you go up quickly." ”

I asked, "What about you?" ”

If Concubine De knew that his son had given me the sedan chair to sit on, she wouldn't know what the expression on her face was. Fourteen: "I followed your sedan chair, and when I got to the Yonghe Gate, you got off the sedan chair again, and said that you bumped into me on the palace corridor." "Anyway, I can't let Concubine De know that he gave me a sedan chair to sit on, hmph, all mothers-in-law in the world are so eccentric, their son walks around the palace, he knows that the sedan chair is for him, and he knows that his daughter-in-law is pregnant and enters the palace to ask for peace, but he feels that walking is a matter of course.

The palace street was sprinkled with a layer of grass ash, so it was not slippery, the eunuchs walked very fast, fourteen trots followed the sedan chair, I wanted to lift the curtain to talk to him, he actually patted the top of the sedan chair, and said: "If you have something to say, don't lift the curtain, be careful to eat the cold air." I let out a warm sigh and asked, "If you're tired, let them rest for a while." ”

Fourteen said triumphantly: "The master once ran two laps along the palace wall without resting, and he was rewarded by the emperor, what are you tired of such a short journey?" Soon arrived at Yonghe Gate, Fourteen stuffed two copper coins into the hands of the leading eunuch, and said: "Fujin is a sedan chair, don't talk nonsense in front of the master of Germany, otherwise the master will never spare you." The eunuch took the money and said with a flattering smile: "Don't worry, the fourteenth master has a very strict mouth, and he can't pry it open." Fourteen bowed his head and said, "Go down." ”

Entering the Yonghe Gate, when they arrived at the shadow of the wall, the two old grandmothers beside Concubine De came out, and said with a smile on their faces: "Say hello to the fourteenth master, please say hello to the fourteenth Fujin." Master De has been chattering, please come in. Fourteen was afraid that the ground would slip, so he took my hand and said, "Look at the road carefully... There is water... It's up the stairs... Crossing the threshold..."

I have three black lines on my forehead, I'm pregnant now, I'm not blind, okay.

Entering the house, Concubine De sat on the main chair, Fourteen and I hurriedly said goodbye, Concubine De smiled and said, "No courtesy, sit down." When I sat down, he asked, "Are you doing well?" "What did the Imperial Physician say?" "Do you have a daily pulse check?" Wait, I answered one by one, and after greeting for a while, I said, "I want to go and see the stone in the side hall." ”

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