Chapter 8 Chapter VII

In a blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival is around the corner.The house was full of joy.Because she is going to the palace for a banquet, my sister repeats the rules every day.Where to change clothes, where to sit, where to receive a gift, where to have a banquet, where to retire, let me recite it again and again.Lest I behaving badly that day. By the afternoon of the 15th, Lord Belle and my sister were all dressed up, and I was also packed up, so a group of people took sedan chairs and went to the Forbidden City.Because I took the course "History of Scroll Painting" when I was in college, there are often art exhibitions in the Forbidden City, so I often go there, but I am only familiar with a few places near the painting hall, which are too big, and I have never visited them all.Today is about to appreciate the heyday of this palace, and it would be a lie to say that you are not excited.

One door after another, one heavy ceremony, and rows of guards, I was completely dizzy, and my spirit was very nervous, lest I make a mistake.He didn't care about his surroundings at all.Only then did I secretly rejoice that my sister trained well.After finally sitting down, I felt my feet were a little weak.Slowed down and looked around: thousands of hanging lamps, bright as day, silver light and snow waves, jewels glowing, incense of dragon sandalwood burned in a cauldron, evergreen stamens in a vase.He sighed secretly: What a royal atmosphere, it is not something that modern TV dramas can describe in case.

All the concubines and concubines gradually arrived and sat down.After waiting for a while, I saw a group of eunuchs coming quickly, each standing still according to the direction, and a voice came from a distance, "The emperor is here!" Everyone got up and stood still, and after a while, they saw a A middle-aged man of medium height, wearing a yellow robe and a beautiful jade hat, with an ancient face and a smile on his face, walked slowly.Everyone huffed and fell to their knees on the ground.I thought to myself, one emperor through the ages, Lord Kangxi! Although there were people kneeling all over the ground, none of them gasped.After Kangxi sat down, the eunuch next to him shouted loudly: "Get up!" Then everyone got up and stood up.Kangxi looked around at the people below with a smile, and said, "Let's all sit down! It's a rare holiday, so please be more casual!" Everyone responded in unison: "Cha!" and took their seats.That being said, I think everyone should observe the etiquette and dare not be bad at all.Sighed, this is the majesty of the emperor of the land of the king.

After drinking for three rounds, the atmosphere at the banquet was a little lively.Several young brothers also started to have fun with each other and raised their glasses to each other.Among them, the noisy voice of the ten princes is the loudest.The prince, the fourth elder brother, and the eighth elder brother also talked, laughed and drank by themselves.I was wandering around, when I suddenly met Mingyu Gege's eyes, she stared at me bitterly.I immediately showed her an incomparably bright smile, thinking to myself, I'm mad at you!She glared at me more and more bitterly, but suddenly, as if reacting to something, she pursed her lips, smiled charmingly at me, and then turned her head.I immediately felt a chill all over my body and shivered.Heart sighed, as expected, the smiling tiger is the scariest.

Eat and drink, drink and stop, smile and look around, although no one pays attention to me, but I am also enjoying myself very much.How can we not enjoy the event to the fullest?I was bowing my head and enjoying myself, and suddenly became very quiet. When I looked up, I saw everyone looking at me.Hearing the eunuch say: "Ma Ertai Ruoxi, come forward and have an audience!" I was startled and couldn't react for a moment.With a sudden jolt, he hurriedly got up, attended, stepped forward, and knelt down.He bowed his head and said in a crisp voice: "Good luck, your majesty!" Kangxi said: "Get up and answer!" As I stood up, I thought, what's the matter?Kangxi laughed and said, "Is this the 'Desperate Thirteenth Sister'?" A concubine next to her laughed and said, "I didn't expect her to be such a cute little girl!"

In full view, I just feel very nervous.Kangxi looked at me and asked with a smile: "Are you nervous to see me?" I thought it would be impossible not to speak any more, so I had to answer: "Yes!" Kangxi seemed to find it quite amusing, and then asked: "Why?" I thought about it for a while , Hui said: "I saw Tianyan for the first time, and I felt so majestic, so I was nervous." Kangxi said 'hmm', and asked again: "Do you think I am very majestic?" I thought to myself, my God!Why is it not over?I thought carefully about how to answer, and if I didn't answer one well, I was afraid that the game would be over.

Seeing that I didn't answer immediately, Kangxi continued to ask with a smile, "Are you afraid of me?" I thought to myself, only a tyrant wants everyone to be afraid of him. The emperor’s generation of sages, how could the slaves be afraid? It’s just that the slaves entered the palace for the first time, and felt that the Tian family was majestic, so they felt a little nervous.” Kangxi smiled and asked, “A generation of sages? Why do you think I am a generation of sages?” That pain in my heart!Why?History has long judged.But I don’t dare to directly copy the words about ascending the throne at the age of eight, capturing Oboi, leveling up three times, taking over Taiwan, and quelling the Galdan Rebellion... because that was the price that Kangxi gave himself in his later years, and I dare not steal his lines .I had no choice but to think about it desperately, and my mind turned around several times, and what came out turned out to be "Qinyuanchun. Snow" in the high school textbook.

"Pity Qin Huang Han Wu, a little less literary talent; Tang Zong Song Zu, a little less coquettish. Genghis Khan, the proud son of heaven, only knows how to bend a bow and shoot big eagles. It's all over, count the romantic figures, and look at the present. " After Kangxi listened, he nodded and said with a smile: "I'm used to hearing about Yao, Shun and Yu Tang, but today's words are new!" I sighed in my heart, how could I forget about Yao, Shun and Yu Tang?But now it seems that the effect is very good, this flattery is not bad!Kangxi said: "It seems that you don't just know 'desperate'!" Then he said to the eunuch next to him: "Reward!" I hurriedly knelt down on the ground again.After receiving the reward, he withdrew.Sitting back in his seat, he found that his palms were sweaty.Looking up, I found that the prince and the fourth elder brother were looking at me carefully, and then quickly lowered their heads.

After such a commotion, Kangxi seemed to be in a good mood, and all the accompanying concubines also chatted and laughed hotly.All elder brothers stepped forward to toast Kangxi and said auspicious words.After the ninth elder brother walked back to his seat, he saw the tenth elder brother come forward, holding the wine and said: "Huang Ama, let the brothers finish all the auspicious words, I have nothing to say, I just wish Huang Ama a healthy body." Ankang." After finishing speaking, he tilted his neck and drank the wine.Kangxi shook his head and said: "I can't remember the words and sentences of the article, I can only speak common sayings." A beautiful concubine beside Kangxi smiled and said: "Although it is a common saying, it is true!" Kangxi nodded.Looking at the tenth elder brother, he thought for a while and said, "It's already seventeen!" The concubine smiled and said, "Ninth elder brother has already established a Fujin at this age, so it's time for the tenth elder brother to establish a Fujin!"

As soon as she finished speaking, all the older brothers listened attentively, and the tenth elder brother lowered his head and looked like he was thinking.Kangxi said: "It's the age!" The concubine laughed and said: "Jinggege just mentioned to me the day before yesterday that the youngest daughter Mingyu is about the same age, and I want to help you find a suitable person. I think she is a good match with Elder Brother Shi! Hearing this, Elder Brother Ten suddenly looked up at Kangxi with a nervous expression on his face.Kangxi nodded and said, "It's a good match!"

Kangxi meditated for a while, looked at Elder Ten and said, "Let's make Guo Luoluo Mingyu your successor!" Elder Ten blushed earlier, and hurriedly said loudly: "Ama Huang, son! The minister is still young..." Before he finished speaking, Kangxi interrupted: "Seventeen is still young?" Elder Brother Ten scratched his head anxiously, and said anxiously: "The fourth brother and the eighth brother are all first." If you want to set up a side Fujin, why don't you set up a side Fujin for me first!" Kangxi said with a stern face: "Nonsense! Mingyu is your natural Fujin, and you have been wronged?" Brother Shi was so anxious that he didn't know what to do. Answering the question, he quickly knelt down on the ground and said, "I don't mean that! My son, it's just, it's just... My son, I just want to..." Before the words were finished, the eighth elder brother had already stood up, smiling, and said in a calm and slow voice: "Huang Ama, I just feel a little sudden when I see the tenth brother, and I won't be able to react for a while. When I wake up , I’m afraid it’s too late to be happy.” Elder Brother Ten suddenly turned his head and stared at Elder Eight with wide eyes, Zi’s face was puffed up, his face was a little anxious, a little angry, a little painful, and more of a pleading one.The eighth elder brother also stared at him, with a smile still on the corner of his mouth, and shouted: "Ten brother, hurry up and thank you!" It was dark and deep, and it was impossible to tell what was contained there. In the end, Elder Brother Shi's face was full of pleading, heartache, and all anger disappeared, leaving only a face of indifference.He slowly turned his head back, put his hands on the ground, and kowtowed three times slowly, the sound of his head touching the ground was clearly audible, and he said loudly: "My son, thank you Huang Ama!" Eighth elder brother also slowly sat down. I just felt that those three ringing heads were all on my heart.One sound, one sound, another sound, it was pressed down so hard that I couldn't breathe!I knew that marriage in ancient times was ordered by parents, and it was difficult for individuals to have autonomy according to the words of matchmakers.But when facing this scene for real, I felt its cruelty.I stared at Mingyu angrily, and she also kept looking at me, with a look of sadness, pride, unwillingness, and hatred on her face. In the end, the desolation, pride, and unwillingness on her face gradually disappeared, and slowly turned into a charming smile.Under my angry gaze, Tingting stood up, stepped forward to thank her dignifiedly, like a proud peacock showing off its beautiful demeanor.Seeing Elder Brother Ten kneeling side by side with her, I just want to shout, why?Why?Why?Isn't he brother?Doesn't he have the most honorable status?Why did this most honored status deprive him of the most precious thing: freedom!Thinking of my sister, look at the scene in front of me, and the draft date that is approaching.Could this be the fate of everyone in the Forbidden City?All the fear that had been hidden all along came out, and his whole body trembled. I don't know what happened afterwards, and I don't know how I got out of the palace.I just remember that in front of the gate of the mansion, as soon as the sedan chair stopped, I rushed out and ran into the gate, with screams behind me. I was just running, running fast, running as hard as I could, running as hard as I could.I think I need to find a place to hide, or I will marry someone for no reason.Behind me, the maids and servants were all chasing me, my sister ran and shouted "Ruoxi, Ruoxi...", while the eighth elder brother was walking quickly, he ordered the guards to catch me in a cold voice.I don't know how long I ran, but I saw a guard jumping forward to stop me. I wanted to go around him and continue running, but he stretched out his hand to stop me.I struggled desperately, just want to break free from him and find a place to hide.Later, I heard Eighth Brother's voice from afar: "Shock her out!" As soon as the back of my neck hurt, I didn't know anything. Since the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, I seldom speak.Qiaohui, Dongyun tried his best, but I was unmoved.Every day, I either sit at the table and make posts, or find a place to be in a daze.For the first time, I began to take a serious look at the fact that I was in ancient times.I thought hard about my possible fate.I kept asking myself over and over, am I just going to sit around and wait for it to happen? The maids and servants in the mansion all looked at me secretly with weird eyes. I know everyone is talking about me going crazy because of Elder Brother Shi, but I don't care about that.My sister always looked at me silently and sadly.I am losing weight day by day, and my sister is also losing weight day by day.Sometimes I heard Qiaohui whisper: "Master, can you persuade Miss?" My sister said softly: "Persuasion is useless. When the time comes, she will naturally figure it out and accept her fate!" I thought to myself no, no meeting.I will never figure it out, why is my fate determined by someone else's random words?Growing up, I only know that my efforts now will determine the results of tomorrow. "Today's flower, tomorrow's fruit" is my motto.I cannot accept that my destiny is the words of others.Can't, I can't!I hate God, why did I come here.Or simply let me be born here, so that I may accept my fate.But I have lived in modern society for 25 years, and the education I have received is that my destiny is in my own hands.Now suddenly tell me that everything is fate, accept fate!I can not accept! It was late autumn, and the leaves on the trees began to fall one after another. I often stood under the trees and watched the leaves fluttering down with the wind when the wind blew by.Each piece is a dancer, they float left and right in the wind, float up, float down, and suddenly twirl again, just like the waist of a young dancer in Tsing Yi on the stage, infinitely charming, and finally invincible Gravity, slowly, falling with infinite nostalgia for the wind The eighth elder brother and the fourteenth elder brother stood beside me and watched the dance of fallen leaves with me for a while.I said softly: "They are all sad, they don't want to fall, but they can't escape the fate of falling." Elder Fourteen said softly: "You are now 'feeling time and tears, hating the bird and being frightened ', after a few days, when I feel better, I won't think so." I didn't say anything, just continued to look at the leaves fluttering in the wind. Brother Fourteen waited for a while, and asked: "Ruoxi, you really like Brother Ten, don't you?" I casually grabbed a yellow leaf that flew past my eyes, and said, "Yes! I like him very much. He is hearty, lively, and makes me happy. The most important thing is that he treats me well." I threw up the leaf in my palm, half-raised my head, and watched it dance in the wind, "but my Like is not what other people think. He is just my best friend." Elder Fourteen asked in surprise: "Then why are you so sad about Elder Brother Ten's marriage? People outside are saying, 'Sister Thirteen is because Elder Brother Ten mad about their marriage'." I turned around and looked at him, and said, "I'm sad not because of his marriage, but because his marriage was forced on him! He doesn't want it!" Taking a breath, I said, "I'm sad because why my own Destiny is at the mercy of others, why can’t you decide for yourself?” Just after finishing speaking, Elder Fourteen gasped and stared at me, Elder Eighth stared at me, with a cold face, and said seriously: “ Don't say these outrageous words in the future!" I twitched the corner of my mouth.With a sneer, he turned his head sideways.He took two steps forward, put one hand on my chin and turned my face towards him, his eyes were fixed on mine, and he said in a cold voice, "Did you hear me?" I turned my head and tried to break free, but found him His hands were surprisingly strong, and he couldn't break free at all, so he had to stare back at him stubbornly.He slowly increased the strength in his hands, and asked in a solemn voice: "Did you hear that?" My jaw was hurting, and it hurt more and more, and finally I stared at him bitterly, and shouted loudly :"I heard!".He stared at me, slowly withdrew his hand, shook his sleeves and left.The fourteenth elder brother said in a deep voice: "Are you crazy? This other person is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!" After speaking, he turned around in a hurry and followed the eighth elder brother closely. I just stood there in a daze among the fallen leaves flying all over the sky, freezing into a picture in the wind.Until Qiaohui came to me, she looked at me, sighed, gently held my arm and said, "Miss, it's very windy here, let's go back!" I followed her and walked back slowly unconsciously. When I entered the room, my elder sister saw me and rushed to meet me, took my hand, and said in surprise: "Why are your hands so cold!" Helping me to sit down, she told Qiaohui to get some hot tea quickly.My sister held my hands with both hands and rubbed them for me. The warmth from her palms was transmitted to my hands little by little, and then gradually passed from my hands to my heart.Looking at my sister's rather thin face, I felt sad, warm, and wronged at the same time. I couldn't help crying while hugging her.My sister hugged me, patted my back, and murmured, "It's good to cry, it's good to cry!" After crying for a long time, I felt that my voice was already hoarse, so I slowly stopped my tears.But still refused to get up, just hugged her sister.My sister didn't speak, but just caressed my back with her hands.After a while, I put my head in my sister's arms and asked in a muffled voice: "Is it because I beat Mingyu Gege that she is going to marry Elder Brother Shi?" My sister helped me up and wiped my face with a silk , said: "Whether you want to fight or not, she will marry Elder Brother Ten." She sighed softly, "People like us are just pawns in the hands of the emperor! It's just that the noble concubine figured out what he wanted, and found a suitable time to perform with the emperor!" I was speechless after hearing this, and sighed in my heart, I overestimated myself.I also thought that Mingyu thought I liked Elder Brother Ten, so she snatched it to revenge me.But that's good too, my guilt towards Elder Brother Ten finally eased a bit.O people of the palace!Suddenly there was a cold war, and the whole body was blown out of air.Thinking of what I said before, I hugged my sister all of a sudden, thinking with infinite fear in my heart, I can't talk nonsense anymore, I absolutely can't talk nonsense anymore, otherwise my sister will be killed.