Chapter 182: Ai Lian and I met on a narrow road after all
Fourteen with Hu, even the New Year is also in the East Garden. I had not been separated from him for several years, and I was very unaccustomed to it, so I would write to him every other day, from the weather to the food and drink at home, and I would dig out the letters I had exchanged with him a few years ago, and sit under the warm winter sun and flip through them, which could also kill most of the day.
In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I put on a grade uniform early, brought Hongchun, Ah Xing, and Hongming, and specially asked Fang Fujin to follow and serve.
Kangxi is not in the palace this year, I am afraid that Yonghe Palace will not be lively, so bring more people to go, it will be better after all. This time, the fourth master did not go to Dongyuan with Kangxi, and the fourteenth was not there, and the fourth master wanted to make up for the mother-son relationship with Concubine De, so he specially let several side blessings in the house enter the palace together.
Last time during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ailian's body was not good and she did not enter the palace, she was afraid that she would be recognized when she entered the palace, and this time she wanted to find another excuse, but she didn't want the fourth master to say: "You hide in the house all day, it's just right to go out for a walk." "In this way, it is difficult to say that it is not possible.
Besides, although the newly entered Li family is just Gege, the fourth master used the excuse that Hongshi and Da Gege could not do without the Li family, and specially ordered the Li family to go with him and serve Da Gege and Hongshi.
The Li family has never entered the palace, and he is full of excitement, taking one step at a time, and feeling new everywhere. When they arrived at Yonghe Gate, the two right-hand men beside Concubine De had already come out, their faces were full of joy, and they said: "Say hello to the fourth master, please say hello to the four blessings." The fourth master gave him a hand, walked inside, and said with a smile: "What is E-Niang doing?" Mama smiled and said, "The master is looking at the fourteenth fortune and making dumplings." Entering the hall, the fourth master led everyone in the house to greet Concubine De, Concubine De ordered them to get up, and gave them seats one by one, Fang Chao Sifujin smiled and said: "The fourteenth daughter-in-law is making dumplings in the flower hall, do you want to take a look?" Sifujin hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "Every year I make dumplings with my fourteenth daughter-in-law, and this year is no exception." Then he said to Xiao Man, "You go with me." Xiao Man answered softly
"Yes", and walked to the flower hall with Sifujin. Hongli was close to Concubine De, and rolled into Concubine De's arms early, and the two grandchildren said a conversation, Hongli said: "Why don't you see Hongchun and Ah Xing?" Concubine De smiled: "They are building snowmen in the backyard, you go to them and talk." Hongli got off the kang, made a gesture to Concubine De, and said to Da Gege and Hongshi: "Are you going?" "Although there are already two grids in the Hongli house, after all, if there is no big wedding, it can't be regarded as a complete adult.
Da Gege and Hongshi were restrained in front of Concubine De, and they wanted to leave for a long time, so they said goodbye to Concubine De and went to the backyard to play with Hongli.
In fact, I can't do such a thing as making dumplings, but I don't know who set a precedent and made making dumplings a way for the daughters-in-law in the palace to honor their mothers-in-law during the New Year.
Not only Yonghe Palace, but also the rest of the palace is the same. On the contrary, the Eight Blessings and the Thirteenth Blessings without a mother-in-law are more comfortable, like this year, Kangxi is not there, they just spend the New Year in their own house.
It's just that there are bad times, for example, there is usually a banquet in the palace, and the children of the eighth and thirteenth masters have nowhere to go.
And Hongchun, Ah Xing, and Hongming are much happier, and they can be thrown in Yonghe Palace at any time, and they can be taken care of by their own concubines, and I am also relieved.
In the flower hall, two large tables are put together, covered with dough and stuffing that the cooks have already concocted, and more than ten palace maids and eunuchs are waiting beside them, beware of my words.
Being able to make dumplings in Concubine De's Palace, according to Xiaoman, is a great blessing and glory. She rolled up her sleeves and wrapped them very hard.
Sifujin and I swallowed slowly, how much could we pack. For a while, Sifujin's daughter Ergege was crying, and Sifujin went out with his hands clean.
Xiao Manzhi opened the palace maid who was close to me, and said in a low voice: "The New Year side Fujin is also here." "I froze in my hands, and I was a little incredulous.
It's been ten years, and Ailian, after all, met on a narrow road. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner did not start until seven o'clock in the evening, Ai Lian and Li Shi invited me to peace, I looked at Ai Lian, only to see that she was respectful and humble, as if she had never known me at all.
I didn't want to turn over the old things and make a storm in the city and embarrass Fourteen, so I fixed my face and said indifferently: "No need to be polite. Ai Lian got up and sat down respectfully to Xiao Man.
I originally thought that I would never be able to face Ai Lian again in this life, and the relationship between me and her was not only the old master-servant friendship, resentment and hatred, but more importantly, there was a fourteen between us, and the position of the fourteenth fortune.
She couldn't face me calmly, and I couldn't smile at her like nothing had happened. Fortunately, there were many people at the dinner party, and the rules in the palace were big, so I bowed my head to eat and drink silently, and I didn't make people feel inappropriate.
It's Ailian, who has three glasses of wine and a very red face. After eating, fireworks lit up in the palace, I held Ah Xing with my left hand, and Hongming with my right hand, standing under the porch and looking up at the bright night sky.
Today is the birthday of Ah Xing, and it is my Good Friday. On that year, I was stabbed by Ailian, and I gave birth to Ah Xing in a coma, and my soul wore back to modern times for three years.
I am the only one in the world who knows how those three years were tormented, and there is no one to say and no one to sue.
Ah Xing coquettishly said: "Ama is not here, the New Year is really not interesting." I reprimanded her and said, "After today, you are a year older, and you are not a little girl anymore, but you have to abide by the rules in the palace." Ah Xing sneered, broke free from my hand, and ran into the house.
Yonghe Palace was full of people, and low-ranking concubines came together to ask Concubine De for blessings. Concubine De had to deal with them one by one, and gave a silver prize.
I was tired for a day and didn't rest, and I wanted to go home early, so I ordered the grandmothers to bring Hongming over, but the grandmother replied: "Just now the slaves and maids took the little master to kick the snow outside the corner gate, and the New Year side Fujin saw it, and said that he looked at the little master cute, and he had to hug it." My heart chuckled, my nerves tightened, and I asked, "What about the Fujin people on the side of the year?" Mama said: "Lord Ah Xing took them to the backyard to see the snowman." I was so frightened that I lifted my robe and hurried to the backyard.
Mama saw me like this, I didn't know what was going on, but she also followed quickly, and said: "The road is slippery, Fujin slows down" The snow in the palace is thick, except for the snow on the main road, the secluded places next to it are not cleaned all year round.
Turning around a few hugging buildings, passing through the corridor and door, following the sound of talking, I found a few half-height children playing in the snow under the giant lights.
I recognized at a glance that it was Ailian, who was standing under the shadow of the lamp with Hongming's back in her arms, and couldn't help but step forward a few steps forward and shouted, "What do you want to do?" The people around were stunned, Ah Xing opened his innocent eyes and said, "Eniang, we are playing in the snow." Ai Lian turned around, with a smile on her face, and said: "The slave saw that Hongming liked it, so she took him out to play" I snatched Hongming and said coldly: "Is Hongming's name what you can call?" Ai Lian paused, and said, "The slave is rude." I glared at the grandmothers who served Hongming again, and said, "If Hongming has any three longs and two shorts, none of you want to live." "I can tolerate everything else, but it's about children.
The grandmothers had never heard me say anything cruel, so they were shocked and frightened, and hurriedly knelt in the snow and said, "The slave knows that she is wrong. Ah Xing pulled my sleeve and said softly, "Eniang, what's wrong with you?" I look at Hongming, I won't let him have an accident. I suppressed my emotions, handed Hongming to Mama, and said to Ah Xing: "E-Niang has something to say about the side Fujin in the same year, you take Hongming to the main hall first, and we will go home after a while." Ah Xing snorted, didn't ask more, and retreated with Hongming and a group of slaves.
Everyone was far away, and there was silence all around, leaving only me and Ai Lian standing in the vast night. Ai Lian smiled and said, "How is Miss lately?" "She said Miss, and I was terrified to hear it.
I glared angrily and said, "What do you want to do if you take Hongming away?" I don't want to pursue the past with you, so why do you want to provoke me? Ai Lian said: "Yes, I originally wanted to be safe and sound at the end of the world" and smiled sadly, and said: "You took away all my things, and you still want to be safe, isn't it too shameless?" "In the matter of marrying Fourteen, I did take advantage of Ailian, otherwise I would have been married to Thirteen now.
Having said that, if she hadn't made it up, maybe Thirteen and I would have had a good time. Because in the beginning, I didn't do it on purpose.
Everything is determined by fate. Seeing that I didn't speak, Ai Lian said again: "Whether you believe it or not, to this day, the Fourteenth Master still has me in his heart." No matter how much you do, it can't change his sincerity to me. And that sincerity is something you can never get. The blood all over my body seemed to be tumbling and boiling, my lips and teeth trembled, and I said, "Really? Do you know what sincerity is? You deceived Fourteen, hated Fourteen, you couldn't see him doing well, this is what you call sincerity? Ai Lian was annoyed and angry, and said, "What do you know? It's not your turn to judge me now! She took two steps forward, and her face fell into the darkness of the lamp, and I couldn't see her face clearly in a trance, only cold and vicious.
She gritted her teeth and said, "One day, I will make you lose everything, lose the position of the Fourteenth Master, the Fourteenth Fujin, make you destitute, and let you taste the torture I suffered that day." My hands and feet were cold, my body seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, and I clenched my palms and forced myself to calm down: "Then you can try it!" Hongming's immature voice came from behind me: "Eniang" I wanted to turn around and answer, but I was pressed by Ailian's shoulder, she said: "What I have experienced, I want to return it to you a thousand times!" Suddenly, his hand was loosened, and he smiled like a flower and said: "Hongming is calling Fujin" Ah Xing saw that I didn't move for a while, trotted over, took my hand, and said: "Eniang, you are so slow, it's dark, we should go home." He pointed at Ai Lian with his little finger again, and said coquettishly: "You, don't want to bully my mother, otherwise my Ama will definitely not spare you!" Ai Lian frowned and said, "Lord Ah Xing is really good at laughing. ”...