In late summer and early autumn, the twilight is heavy, and the crimson sunset floats on the top of Jingshan Mountain, dyeing the entire peak. In the courtyard, the roses are densely blooming all over the shelves, a rich fragrance circulates in the air, and the birds are singing and crying among the branches. Ah Xing was wearing a shallow water red narrow-sleeved jacket, picking grapes under the vines with the girls, and I was holding Hongming to watch. Ah Xing is worthy of being the county lord of the Manchus, but he is only six years old, but he grows more than one meter, half a head taller than Hongchun. She picked a basket of purple grapes, asked the slave maid to fetch two buckets of water, washed them herself, peeled them and put them in my mouth, and said with a sweet smile: "Eniang, is it delicious?" ”

I frowned so sourly that I said, "If you pour too much juice, it's sour!" Ah Xing also tasted one himself, and almost immediately spit it out, stuck out his tongue and squinted: "It's too sour!" She looked at the basket full of grapes, very disappointed. I said, "It's okay if it's sour, E-Niang will make you grape sauce, grape pudding, and raisins, okay?" ”

As soon as Ah Xing heard about the food, he immediately smiled and said, "I love to eat the dim sum made by Eniang." ”

Taking advantage of the cool weather in the evening, Minqiu led the people to pick all the grapes on the grape trellis. Half of it was used to make wine for Fourteen, half of it was used to make raisins for Lao Li, and the rest was put in jars and placed in the well. Before I returned home at night, Ah Xing was taken care of by my grandmother, so I coaxed Hongming to sleep, washed my hands, and went to the kitchen in the small courtyard to make grape sauce.

Peel the grapes and remove the seeds, mix them with sugar and marinate them for two quarters of an hour, then put them in a small porcelain pot and put them in the stove to boil. I was wearing a moon-white ice silk summer dress, standing by the small stove and stirring constantly, so as not to stick to the pot. Min Qiu said: "Master, the weather is too hot, is it okay to let the slave and maid watch it for you?" I smiled and said, "That's it, Ah Xing, that ghost girl eats more and more mouthy, and then she always says that she shouldn't eat it if she doesn't make it..." ”

Min Qiu blessed his body and said, "Lord Belle is auspicious. ”

Fourteen winked, the kitchen retreated, he hugged me from behind, and I said, "It's hot, let go!" Fourteen didn't move his hand for half a minute, clasped his palm on my abdomen, and said coquettishly: "Look in the sky, the moon is really round today." "I looked up, and sure enough, there was an innocent moon hanging in the dark blue sky, and the wisps of clouds were slowly drifting by, and a few stars were shining beside me. He hugged me gently, and his breath hit my ears, warm and moist, like a kiss. It was quiet, and the purple grapes in the pot were getting thicker and thicker, making a gurgling sound.

I picked out some grape sauce with my chopsticks, handed it to Fourteen's mouth with my backhand, and said, "How about it taste?" ”

Fourteen didn't think about it, he opened his mouth to eat, grinned his teeth, and said, "It's burned..." Fourteen glanced at me and said, "How do I know it's so hot?!" I picked up a fresh grape from the side and stuffed it for Fourteen, and said, "Eat one and cool it." Fourteen chewed his mouth, and his reaction was exactly the same as Ah Xing's, and he immediately vomited, complaining: "It's so sour..." ”

I laughed and shook my head, "No, no..."

He tickled my armpits with both hands and said, "Really, not?" See if you can make a move..."I was so happy that I was so happy that I hid left and right, just playing with him, and forgetting the grape sauce cleanly. The next day, I scooped a spoonful of grape sauce and rushed it away, and served it to Ah Xing to drink. Ah Xing looked at the lilac liquid and poured it down with joy. Suddenly, he asked, "Eniang, why are you suffering?" ”

Fourteen didn't enter the palace today, and after listening to Ah Xing's words, he fooled: "Where is it bitter, Ama thinks it's very sweet." ”

Ah Xing rolled his eyes and complained: "Eniang, Ama deceived the child again!" ”

Fourteen: "..."

I said honestly: "Yesterday, E-Niang was negligent and accidentally cooked a little bit of grape sauce, because Ah Xing picked it by herself, E-Niang was reluctant to throw it. Ah Xing comforted: "In fact, there is only a little bit of suffering. After saying that, he took a big bite and ate it deliciously. Fourteen ate corn steamed buns with milk, and said dissatisfiedly: "When did Amma lie to you?" ”

Ah Xing's face did not change, and said, "You lied to me just now." ”

Fourteen Dao: "It's only just once, how can you say" and "lie to you?" ”

Ah Xing snorted and pouted, "Then I said something wrong, can't I?" Fourteen was stunned, shook the steamed bun, and said angrily: "How do you talk?" "Ah Xing looked at me as if asking for help, this girl, she is getting bolder and bolder, when I scolded her, she moved fourteen as a rescuer, and when fourteen taught her, she hid behind me again. I smeared a layer of grape sauce on the steamed buns and remained silent, indicating that I would not participate in the war between their father and daughter. Ah Xing looked at me for a while, there was no way, and said to the fourteenth: "Eniang said, people are equal, and Ama and I are also equal, Ama lied to me once, and I will also lie to Ama once." ”

I was about to say something, for example: "People are equal, but children should respect their parents...", and so on, but I didn't want to give me any face, so I glared at me and said, "Look what you have taught!" ”

Seeing that the two of us were about to quarrel, Ah Xing silently blessed himself and ran away with his schoolbag.

After using up the breakfast, after serving the fourteenth to wash, he sat cross-legged on the kang to write articles, although he was not young, but Kangxi still watched his homework closely. Minqiu and I continued to process the leftover grapes from yesterday, boiled two large pots of grape sauce, packed them in small glass jars, and asked our subordinates to send them to the princes' mansions. Thinking that Xiao Man likes to eat sweet and sour, he specially sent her two more cans.

In the afternoon, Xiao Man sent a return gift and a post, and when he heard that Prince Yong's Mansion had sent someone to ask for peace, he couldn't wait to say, "Let's see it first." "It's just two plates of milk and rice cakes, fourteen looked left and right, said that they had eaten the fire, and gave it to Zhang Fangfang. I want to look at the post again, the post says that there is a temple fair in Jingshan in Ming'er, and I am asked to go to incense. What Qianlong's wife said, I don't dare not listen to it, we will have to rely on Qianlong to restore the title in the future, I promised to let the mother who replied happily.

Fourteen Dao: "Qin Tianjian said that there is a heavy rain, so it's better not to go out." ”

I didn't know that he deliberately blocked it, and looked into the sky, only to see the blue sky and white clouds, and the sun was shining, so I said: "What Qin Tianjian said is not accurate. "It's like the weather forecast for Central Station. Fourteen: "Then I'll accompany you." "He can accompany me, I naturally can't ask for it, and I'm afraid of delaying his business, according to my calculations, it won't be long before the crown prince will be deposed for the second time, and the capital will set off a bloody storm, although it will not affect the fourteenth, but Kangxi's anger is very terrifying, the situation is tense, and it is completely out of control.

I said, "The court is important, you don't have to put aside serious things for me." ”

Fourteen: "Protecting you is my business." He said so solemnly that I couldn't help laughing and said, "I'll bring a few more guards, and I'll be careful when I go up and down the mountain, and I'll be fine." He hugged him again and said with a smile: "I'm not a child..." He put his big palm on the top of my head and said, "With me, you can be a child." ”

It's so warm.

It was my turn to hold him and be coquettish, and suddenly my heart moved: "Fourteen, you treat me so well, why are you so good?" Fourteen eyes flowed, as if there were a thousand words, and finally just held my face and said, "Because you are stupid." ”

I snuggled into his arms and whispered, "I'm not stupid, you're stupid..."

Since the fourth master ordered the Li family and Xiao Man to assist in the affairs of the inner court, Fu Jin intended to win over Xiao Man to curb the Li family's power. Xiao Man occasionally said that it was boring, and Fu Jin asked her to go out of the house to the temple fair for incense. Because of Song Gege's taking the wrong medicine, Xiao Man became suspicious of Nian Gege, and thought of the rumors in the previous mansion that Nian Gege pushed the fourteenth Fujin into the water, plus Nian Gege really looked like Ai Lian, so all kinds of things in series, Xiao Man wanted to ask Rose about it, after all, Ai Lian was a slave in Wanyan Mansion, and her death was unknown.

So, I wrote a post asking Rose to go along. And Fujin, somehow, suddenly changed his mind, saying that he wanted everyone in the mansion to go out for a walk, and let Song Gege, Wu Gege, Geng Gege, Nian Gege and Xiao Man go out of the house to play together.

Du Du did not let the Li family accompany him.

On the day of incense, I didn't get up until nine o'clock in the morning as usual, and I entered the palace before dawn on the 14th day. He always tiptoed up, tiptoed to eat breakfast, tiptoed out of the house, never called me to serve, and always let me sleep until I woke up naturally. washed and dressed, refined makeup, put on jewelry, ate two bites of dim sum to rub his stomach, and helped Minqiu to the door of the house to take the car.

The little guy guarding the door today is Anan, and I wondered, "Why didn't you follow the master into the palace?" ”

Anan was well-behaved, looked at me with a pair of black eyes and said, "The master ordered the slave to follow Fujin to Jingshan to incense." "Actually, I like Anan a lot, he is small and thin, he is smart and smart, he speaks simply and clearly, and he never says much. Especially a small face, white and clean, with beautiful eyes, nose and chin, if he hadn't shaved his head and braided long braids, I would have thought she was a girl.

Anan squatted down in front of me and let me step on his back into the carriage, although I am used to being a master, but I will never do such a thing that tramples on human dignity. I said to Yan Yuese: "Get up, Minqiu can help me up." After a pause, he said, "I don't have to do this in the future, I can get into the car myself." Anan was stunned for a moment, and then said half-loudly: "Yes." ”

The 14th specially arranged ten more guards, and the guard of honor in front of them opened the way and stopped the idle people to the side of the road. People are talking about "the carriage of the fourteenth Fujin", "Fujin is going out", "really magnificent" and so on, followed by the maid in charge of tea and clothes, a mighty group of people, swaggering across the road.

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