Chapter 61 Chapter 61 Is she in a hurry?

Concubine Xi said: "When Jing Qingchuan's incident broke out, the eighth elder brother can't be relied on. But we got too close to him before. If someone with a heart goes to the crown prince to say a few gossips, it is inevitable that the crown prince will be upset. Think more. Tell Xinlian to go, just to ask her to find out what he has to say." Wan Yue suddenly realized, and hurriedly flattered: "Your Majesty is really smart." Concubine Xi smiled complacently, "To live in the palace, and to live a good life in the palace, the most important thing is to know how to watch the limelight, and borrow the east wind to fly higher."

Just as she was talking, she heard someone report outside: "Xinlian is back." Wan Yue looked at Xi Concubine questioningly, saw her nodded slightly, and hurriedly sent Xinlian to come in.After a while, Xinlian came in from the outside with a few brocade boxes in her arms, and said back: "Your Majesty, the servants sent them to the crown prince, and the prince asked the servants to tell the empress, he appreciates the empress's kindness, but the things cannot be accepted." Concubine Xi looked at the brocade box in Xinlian's arms, smiled coldly, and asked, "The prince really refuses to accept anything?"

Xinlian replied: "The crown prince said that the emperor hates forming cliques for personal gain, so from now on he will not accept gifts from anyone, and will not meet with any irrelevant people." Xi Concubine was even more annoyed when she heard this, she bit her lip and remained silent. Xin Lian carefully observed Xi Concubine's face, and said tentatively: "Your Majesty? But this time when the servants went, they found something." Xi Concubine looked over at her, Xin Lian hurriedly smiled flatteringly, He continued, "When the maidservant left, the crown prince was looking at a painting, and the person in the painting was... Qingchuan."

Concubine Xi was taken aback, and asked, "You mean the crown prince is looking at Qingchuan's portrait?" Xinlian nodded, and said: "The servant girl specifically inquired, and said that the prince specially asked the painters in the Ruyi Pavilion to paint, and they kept calling her Qingchuan Fairy. If you want me to say that Qingchuan is really amazing, she hooked up with her first. Eighth brother, it is shameless to deceive the prince again now." Wan Yue wondered: "Qing Chuan is serving in front of the imperial court now, and the crown prince often follows the emperor to deal with political affairs. Obviously, he can see Qing Chuan, so why do you ask the painter to paint Qing Chuan's portrait?"

Concubine Xi looked thoughtful, and after a moment of silence, she suddenly asked Wan Yue: "You said that if I give Qingchuan to the crown prince, will the crown prince think of me well?" Wan Yue and Xin Lian glanced at each other secretly, both lowered their heads, Wan Yue replied: "I don't know." Concubine Xi smiled, a plan gradually took shape in her heart, a method that could please the crown prince and hurt the concubine De! Besides, the prince, since his restoration, has become more calm in his conduct, and has become more concerned about government affairs.Kangxi was relieved, he only said that he had learned a lesson and improved, but he didn't know that he had a few compliments from Kangxi, so that he could ask Kangxi for Qingchuan's past thoughts.

Although Kangxi didn't notice the prince's thoughts, Qingchuan vaguely sensed that something was wrong, because she found that as long as she was away from Kangxi's eyes, the prince's eyes would always stick to her.This look made Qingchuan feel uncomfortable on pins and needles. After she had this a few times, she began to try her best to avoid the prince. Whenever the prince came to report political affairs to Kangxi, she tried to avoid it as much as possible, or simply went out with others. shift. Unexpectedly, just like this, he was still caught by the prince. An old concubine in Ningshou Palace passed away. Because Kangxi always advocated filial piety, he attached great importance to it. He specially summoned the crown prince and several ministers to discuss the funeral of the old concubine in Ningshou Palace. Order Qin Tianjian to watch over the days, and she will be buried in the Dongling Mausoleum in ten days, the old concubine told her before she was alive that she wanted a few women from the Eight Banners to volunteer to guard her mausoleum for three years, the House of Internal Affairs will see how it can be arranged?"

Guarding the mausoleum is a very bitter and lonely thing, ordinary people don't want to go, let alone noble women from the Eight Banners.A minister at the bottom said with some embarrassment: "I should do my best, but I'm afraid if I volunteer..." Kangxi said: "I also know that it will make you very embarrassed, just try to find it, the worst thing is to increase the pension," he said, and confessed to others, "I will help him too." Everyone is busy. Qing Chuan was on duty, brought in tea with her head down, placed it carefully in front of Kangxi, and said softly, "Your Majesty, please have some tea."

Kangxi said casually: "Let it go." Qingchuan put down her tea, and when she turned around, she saw the prince blinking at her.She was so frightened that her scalp tightened, and she was slightly taken aback.Fortunately, Kangxi didn't notice it, and just told everyone: "Okay, go back if you have nothing else to do. Qingchuan, send the prince and the adults out, and distribute the American ginseng that Annan paid tribute to everyone." Qing Chuan promised to go out, and took people to the warehouse to get American ginseng and distribute it to the prince and several ministers.Those ministers all thanked and left, but the crown prince didn't leave, he just blocked Qingchuan's way and said, "Xiangu, please bear with me a little longer, after a few more days, I will take advantage of Huang Ama When you are happy, ask him to ask you to go."

Qing Chuan was taken aback, and before he could refuse, he heard someone sneer not far away, "No wonder he refuses to marry myna, because he wants to climb a higher branch." Both Qingchuan and the prince were taken aback for a moment, the prince turned his head and looked over, wondering: "Old Ninth?" "Second brother." Brother Nine greeted the prince hastily, then turned his head and looked at Qingchuan, seeing that she ignored him but kept looking behind him, he sneered and said, "Don't look at me." , Myna saw you chatting with the crown prince just now, so he has already left."

Qing Chuan was startled, and asked, "Eighth Brother was there just now?" Brother Jiu nodded, and said sarcastically, "I can't see it, you meet the fourth brother and the prince, you really know how to cast a net to catch fish!" The prince heard it strangely, and couldn't help but ask brother Jiu: "Old Jiu, what are you talking about? Who wants to marry Lao Ba?" Brother Nine pointed at Qing Chuan, and said with a sneer, "This is the woman, Second Brother, you must not be fooled by her, she has clever tricks, and attracted Myna to fall in love with her, but she just walked away."

Qing Chuan had been holding back her temper all this time, and now she couldn't bear it any longer, and said coldly, "Brother Jiu, be careful with what you say, don't slander people with red lips and white teeth, the servants are honest and honest in the Qianqing Palace every day. As an errand, when did you provoke the eighth elder brother?" Then he turned around and squatted down to the prince, and said: "The servant is still on duty in front of the imperial court, the prince, the ninth elder brother, the servant will leave first!" After finishing speaking, he ignored the two of them, turned around and left. Back outside the main hall, I heard that the eighth elder brother was replying to the emperor inside.Qing Chuan thought for a while, asked Li Dequan to ask for leave and said: "Li Wenda, I feel a little uncomfortable in my head, I am afraid that I will be rude in front of the emperor, so I want to go back and have a rest first." Li Dequan knew that Kangxi treated Qingchuan differently from others, so he didn't make things difficult for her, so he granted her leave. The next day, when Qingchuan was on duty at the Qianqing Palace, a little eunuch secretly handed her a string of Buddhist beads and said in a low voice, "Yesterday, Brother Liba gave you the sandalwood from the South China Sea. It has the effect of calming the nerves. The eighth elder brother said that you are always watching the night in the Qianqing Palace, and you can't sleep well, so you will feel better if you take this." What the hell is this eighth brother thinking?Qingchuan stared blankly at the Buddhist beads for a while, but she didn't put them on, but put them in her sleeves. Li Dequan came out of the hall lightly, called Qing Chuan and said: "The emperor called the fourth elder brother over early in the morning to talk about offering sacrifices to the old concubine's mausoleum, and he is still in the Nuan Pavilion. I'm hungry, try to send some food in." When Qingchuan heard that the fourth elder brother was inside, she couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, after thinking about it, she went to the small kitchen and brought over two bowls of hot milk, and sent them to the warm pavilion.I heard Kangxi say: "The old concubine has no children and has always regarded me as her own. I must have a conscience. Her funeral must be done well. Fourth, you have to be more careful." The fourth elder brother replied in a deep voice: "My son knows that he also goes to worship at the old concubine's spirit every day, and he will definitely urge them to take care of the old concubine's funeral. Huang Ama can rest assured." Qingchuan lightly brought the jade bowl to Kangxi, and said softly: "The weather is getting cold, the emperor will use the bowl of hot milk to warm his stomach." Kangxi nodded, watched Qingchuan put the jade bowl on the desk, and casually said to the fourth elder brother: "I came here in such a hurry this morning, I must not have time to eat, you can also use a bowl." Qingchuan brought another bowl to the fourth elder brother, and the fourth elder brother quickly got up and thanked Kangxi, looked up at Qingchuan, took the bowl and drank it down, and put it back on the tray.Qingchuan didn't dare to look up at him, and stepped back carefully with her head down.It wasn't until he exited the Snapper that he breathed a sigh of relief. After a while, the fourth elder brother came out of the hall, but stopped when he walked past Qingchuan, and said in a low voice, "Thank you." Qing Chuan looked at the nose, nose and heart, and said lightly: "The duty of a servant girl, fourth elder brother, please be polite." The fourth elder brother looked at her silently, but turned around and left without saying anything. Only then did Qing Chuan raise her head and look at his back. She couldn't explain what she felt in her heart for a moment. At that dinner party, she was mistaken by Kangxi for being a monster who was going to be executed. She thought it would be him who came to rescue her. Unexpectedly, he was silent all the time, never even saying a word for her. Maybe, she has always been acting affectionately, thinking that she is special to him, but in his eyes, she is just an insignificant little maid. The fourth elder brother strode down the corridor in the palace, but there was always a flash of Qingchuan's silent look just now, from the beginning to the end, she never raised her eyes to look at him, and there was that faint sentence of "duty of a servant", For some reason, he suddenly felt a little inexplicably anxious. When he was about to leave the palace gate, a young eunuch chased after him and shouted: "Si elder brother, please stay!" The fourth elder brother stopped and turned around, and asked lightly, "What's the matter?" The little eunuch obviously ran in a hurry, out of breath, he replied respectfully: "The servant is in the palace of the Empress Defei, and the empress asked you to go to her place." The fourth elder brother was slightly taken aback when he heard the words. Although the concubine De is his biological mother, there always seems to be something between the mother and the son. so close.Why did you think of suddenly looking for him this time?The fourth elder brother glanced at the sweaty little eunuch, but didn't ask anything, just turned around and went to the Yonghe Palace.