Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen

It's time to reward, it's time to play, the night is already dark, so I'm going back home.Fourteen was the first to say, "I'll take Ruoxi back." After I heard that, taking advantage of Fourteen's not paying attention, I shrugged my shoulders at Thirteen, and Thirteen smiled.In the end, Thirteen sent Luwu, Fourteen sent me and Qiaohui, and the others dispersed. The weather was quite cold, so Qiaohui put on the cloak she had prepared in advance for me.Fourteen and I walked side by side, followed by Qiao Hui, until the gate of the mansion, we were silent all the way.

The boy opened the door, and saw that it was me and Shisi, he greeted him with a smile, and said, "Miss is back, Master Lan has sent people to ask several times." After Sisi asked him to get up, he asked, "Myna Is it there?" The little servant hurriedly replied: "Where is it at Fujin's place? Do you want me to report a letter?" Fourteen walked forward and said, "Tell the starling that I am waiting in the study. " I wanted to go back to my sister's place, but I was stopped by Fourteen, and said with a straight face, "Follow me to the study." I thought about it, and thought, what if I go with him?Then nodded.Let Qiaohui go back and tell her sister first, and then went to the study with Shisi.

The two sat silently in the study for a while, then saw Li Fu lift the curtain, and Eighth Brother walked in slowly with a smile on his face.Seeing that I was there, a look of surprise flashed across my face. Sisi'an didn't invite either, stood up, opened his mouth and said, "Guess, who did I see Ruoxi with today?" Eighth brother still smiled, and glanced at Li Fu, Li Fu hurriedly backed out , and took the door behind him. The eighth elder brother sat down and asked with a smile: "With whom?" Fourteen looked at me and said, "I don't know when she and the old thirteen got so close? She is with the old thirteen." He snorted Then he said: "It's okay, she actually hangs out with Si, a brothel girl." When I heard that, I was also very angry, who am I, and it's his turn to take care of my affairs?Asked back: "How about being with brother thirteen? How about being with a brothel girl?"

Fourteen looked at me angrily, and said, "How? Have you ever seen a respectable Miss Gege with a brothel girl in the Forbidden City?" I became more angry, stood up and looked at him, and said with a sneer: " I only know that Luzhu who fell to her death as a reward for death is a prostitute, Liang Hongyu who beat the drums to fight against the gold is a prostitute, Li Shishi who refused to serve the gold man and died by swallowing gold is a prostitute, and General Lin Siniang who desperately saved King Heng is a prostitute , Yuan Baoer, who is generous and tragic and dies without regrets, is a prostitute..." Suddenly realized, Yuan Baoer was from the late Ming Dynasty, and he was fighting against the Qing soldiers.

Shisi obviously didn't expect his two words to cause me to say such a long string of nonsense, he was furious, and couldn't think of how to refute me for a while, so he just gritted his teeth and nodded, while glaring at me angrily. The eighth elder brother saw that we were going back and forth, and finally the two of them stared at each other like cross-eyed chickens, couldn't help shaking their heads and smiling, and said, "Stop staring! Fourteenth brother, go back first! Ruoxi's matter , I will deal with it." Fourteen glared at me, then turned to look at Eighth Brother, hesitating to speak, and finally turned around and glared at me again, then flung his sleeves away.

Facing Fourteen, I didn't feel any fear.But as soon as he left, only my eighth brother and I were left, but I became nervous.With his head down, he was rubbing the cloak strap in his hands, not knowing what to do. The eighth elder brother looked at me for a while, and said with a smile on his face: "The prince's joke is very appropriate. I see that you not only try your best to look like the thirteenth brother, but also admire the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and have the same style as a free and unrestrained celebrity! "Smiled again and said: "Don't stand!" I slowly sat down after hearing this.He said: "Come over here, I have something to talk to you." I became more and more nervous, but there was nothing I could do, so I walked over slowly and sat beside him with my head bowed.

After seeing me sitting down, he sighed, turned his head and stared ahead, and became silent. The two sat silently for a while, and he suddenly said: "Are you afraid?" I was taken aback, I didn't know what he was referring to, so I could only look at him puzzled, and he looked back at me and said, "Draft girl, you Are you afraid?" After hearing this, I felt the sorrow that had already filled my whole body rushing up again, I nodded silently, and lowered my head, frowning and worrying. After a while, Eighth Brother suddenly said to himself: "I was fifteen when I first met your sister." I quickly put my sorrow aside and listened carefully. "That year, your Ama returned to Beijing to report on her duties, and she came with her. It was spring, the weather was surprisingly good, the sky was as blue as washed water, and the fragrance of flowers in the breeze was so refreshing. I went with two young men. Riding horses in the countryside. I saw a little girl riding a horse on the hillside from a distance." He smiled and said, "You have seen Ruolan's equestrian skills, and you should know how beautiful and amazing it is!" I recalled that day at the racetrack Looking at her sister's dusty demeanor, she nodded unconsciously.

He said: "She rode better that day than on the racecourse. Her laughter was like a string of silver bells, floating in the mountains and forests. It was full of happiness, and it made people who heard it feel happy. It's all about being happy and laughing along." He was silent for a while: "I couldn't believe what I saw at the time. There are many beautiful girls in the Forbidden City, but Ruolan is different." I thought to myself, my sister at that time was a happy woman in love, and I thought You and your loved ones can soar above the nine heavens.Her happiness emanates from the deepest part of her heart, which is of course different from those women in the Forbidden City who may never have a relationship in their lifetime.

He said: "After I went back, I was busy inquiring about your sister, and I was thinking about how to ask Huang Ama to give her to me. When I was trying to find a way, Er Niang told me that Huang Ama wanted to marry Ma Ertai's family. The big girl promised me to make a side Fujin. At that time, I felt that I had never been so happy in my life. The day after Huang Ama issued the decree, I ran all over the capital, and it took more than half a year to find one. The phoenix blood jade bracelet, I want to give it to her when she gets married." I looked down at the bracelet on my wrist, couldn't help raising my wrist, and asked, "Is this one? Is it for my sister?"

He looked at the bracelet on my wrist, stretched out his hand to hold my hand, and said, "I've been looking forward to it for a long time, and I'm looking forward to it later, and finally I waited for the big wedding day. But when I lifted the hijab, I felt that the matter was not mine. I think so. The person I missed for two years is completely different from the person in front of me. She never rides a horse and rarely smiles. I keep asking myself, what is going on? Am I wrong? Someone? Later, I sent people to the northwest to inquire, and after many twists and turns, I found out why." He smiled wryly, and did not continue.

I sighed heavily in my heart, good luck tricks people!After thinking about it for a while, suddenly his heart beat wildly. He held his breath and asked nervously and fearfully: "How did that person die?" He was silent for a while, took a deep breath and said: "The person I sent to investigate It alarmed you, Ama, and you, Ama, sent him to be a striker in order to avoid him, and then..." He stopped and didn't say any more. I just felt my heart beating vigorously.I pulled out my hand and wanted to take off the bracelet and give it back to him, but he grabbed my hand and said, "Don't take it off!" I lowered my head, stared at the bracelet, and said, "This is for my sister." I tightened my hand and whispered, "This is for the person I like." After finishing speaking, he raised my chin with the other hand, stared into my eyes and said, "Promise me, never take it off." !” I looked back at his bottomless black eyes, filled with tenderness that I had never seen before, and deep sadness, which seemed to be overflowing soon, and I couldn’t help being moved in my heart. Mixed with sadness, he nodded slowly.Seeing that I agreed, he couldn't help smiling slowly, and let go of my hand. After a while, he smiled and said: "Don't be afraid! I will find a way, and there will always be a way to get Huang Ama to give you to me." I said 'ah' and looked at him in surprise.He smiled at me again.I shook my head quickly, and said in my mouth: "No!".He looked at me, the smile on his face disappeared little by little, his face gradually turned blue, and he suddenly asked: "Could it be that you are willing to be Huang Ama's woman?" I don't want anything, I just want to live a good life and find someone who really loves me, cherishes me and takes care of me, not just a woman who is admired in my spare time.Don't give me back and forth, I'm a person, I'm not a thing. He looked at me shaking my head in pain, and suddenly held my head in both hands, and said, "Stop shaking it!" I had tears in my eyes, and my heart was miserable, so I just looked at him with wide eyes.He looked at me for a while, then suddenly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then opened them, sighed and said: "It's up to you!" After a pause, he said: "I will think of a way." After finishing speaking, Let go of me.I called Li Fu in and asked him to take me back to my sister. As soon as we walked to the door, he suddenly said from behind: "After entering the palace, don't dress up like the tenth brother's birthday." I didn't understand for a while, so I stopped and looked back at him. He looked down at the ground, slowly Slowly said: "Such beauty is too dazzling!" Only then did I slowly understand.For a moment, he couldn't tell whether it was happiness or worry, so he just let out a low 'huh' and turned his head to follow Li Fu. After returning to the house, my sister saw that my face was pale, and thought that I had been scolded by the eighth elder brother, so she came over and stroked my face, sighed, and asked Dongyun to serve me to sleep. I lay on the bed, unable to sleep, thinking about my sister for a while, and thinking about myself for a while.I kept thinking, does my sister know about Brother Ba's feelings for her?I also feel stupid, in fact, it is not difficult to see Eighth Brother's feelings for his sister from many things.For example, the eighth elder brother was surprised when he saw me for the first time; my sister rarely went to greet Di Fujin, but Di Fujin never made her sister sad; Discussions, but from food and clothing to daily necessities, those most snobbish eunuchs dare not wrong my sister at all. ....The more I think about it, the more I feel that many things are in front of my eyes, but I haven't thought about it. But what about me?What am I?Sister's stand-in?Why did I leave the bracelet behind?Why didn't it return it to him?Is it just because of the soft heart at that moment? ...difficulty sleeping. In early summer, the fragrance of flowers has passed, only the shades of green are different from each other.Although the weather has started to heat up, it is still a little cool at night. I leaned against the railing of the bridge, looking at the crescent moon rippling in the water, and muttered in my mouth: "It's just the beginning of welcoming the spring, and sending it back." Spring comes and spring goes, I have been in the palace for three years . I still remember that when drafting girls, Kangxi did not choose them personally, as I thought, but the highest-ranking imperial concubine Tong Jiashi and several other eminent concubines at that time drafted a list and presented it to Kangxi. Choose after reading the list.And when I was in this round, I was listed outside the list. I heard that when I was selecting female officials for the empresses of various palaces afterwards, there were actually two empresses who asked me by name at the same time. Shi.The eunuch in charge was in a dilemma, so he had to report it to the imperial concubine Tong Jia. After thinking about it, Tong Jia finally assigned me to the Qianqing Palace to serve tea in front of the imperial court. Serving tea seems to be a simple job, but anything related to the emperor, no matter how simple it is, becomes complicated.Although I already knew that drinking tea is an art, I never imagined that there would be so many rules.Learn one by one from the beginning, distinguishing tea leaves, identifying water quality, controlling water temperature, configuring tea sets, how to test poison, hand gestures when pouring tea, footsteps when serving tea, and Kangxi's special hobbies.After studying for three full months, the teacher who taught him nodded. On the one hand, I went to the Qing Palace to do something strange. The eunuchs and maids in the palace did not want to provoke me, and they treated me very kindly. Just accepted me.Now I am the leader of the twelve maids in charge of tea serving and daily life in Qianqing Palace. Thinking about the past three years, I couldn't help but sighed at the moon shadow in the water, turned around and went back to the room slowly.I will be on duty tomorrow!