Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty-Five

My sister has been sitting silently by the side watching my painting, and when I finished painting in one breath, she said: "You have learned a lot in the palace these few years. At first I thought it was just an excuse! The painting is so good! It makes me want it too." I put down my pen and said with a smile, "That's not how much I want, how much I have! When I finish the drawing, I will bring it to you." While thinking, I I learned to draw when I was young. Although it is not good, it is more than enough to draw tricks and so on. There are no entertainments in the palace, so I have to work hard on these things, but I will become better and better!My sister smiled and didn't answer.

Both of them sat quietly, and my heart was full of joy, as if I had returned to the days when I first arrived at Baylor Mansion. I didn’t need to think about anything, just thinking about how to pass the boring time. The most important thing every day was just how to play.With a smile on the corner of his mouth, he leaned his head lightly on his sister's shoulder.Singing, fighting, bickering with the old ten, being teased by the fourteen, kicking shuttlecock with the maids, all these scenes flashed in my mind, as if it was yesterday, but it has been four years.It turned out that my happiest days in these years were actually spent in Babeile Mansion!

After a while, my sister said softly: "It's already eighteen." I said 'hmm' casually.My sister pushed my head straight, looked at me, and I also looked at her quietly, she asked seriously: "You have been with Huang Ama for four years, what are your plans?" She looked sideways at the curtain Outside, he asked in a low voice: "Is there anyone you like in your heart?" This sister!It's really like my mother!In the past few years, I was afraid that I would like someone, and later I was worried about why I didn't have a boyfriend yet.I was both moved and uncomfortable, but my face didn't show anything, and I asked with a smile: "A few years ago, didn't my sister tell me not to let my mind wander?" My sister gave me a look with a smile, and said: " A few years ago, when you were going to enter the palace, who knew whether Huang Ama would pick you, or give you to a son of another family. It is useless to have thoughts, so why bother yourself?" After finishing speaking, he was silent. After a while, he went on to say: "But now that you are so old, and you are someone that Huang Ama values, you can speak for yourself in front of Huang Ama. You have to make plans for yourself, and you can't do it for a lifetime. Your maid, right?" I smiled slightly, but didn't speak.

My sister picked up my hand, looked at the bracelet on my hand and said, "I still have it!" My heart tightened, and I quickly pulled my hand back.The elder sister didn't care either, she thought for a while quietly, and said: "If you really like Thirteenth Brother, let Thirteenth Brother ask Huang Ama to take you." After a pause, she continued: "But I think The tenth brother is still thinking about you, so it's okay to be with him. But Shifujin..." She paused for a moment, then chuckled and said, "That's not to be afraid, you can let her take advantage of your temper? "I listened silently, thinking that for a man and another woman to live my life under the same roof, how much love is needed to support it?

After a while, my sister said again: "I think the fourteenth brother treats you well." I couldn't help but started laughing, and asked with a smile: "So much? Is there any more?" It was a joke, but my sister But he looked at me and said earnestly, "My lord is also very good to you." My smile froze on my face, I turned my head from the side, and said with a forced smile, "Sister, if you keep talking like this, you're like a big brother." They are all very kind to me. I don't know when I became a favorite." My sister smiled slightly.I looked ahead and said quietly: "If I want to marry someone, he must treat me wholeheartedly. Sister, you understand!" My sister fell silent.

I was quiet, then turned around, thinking that my sister really didn't care about Brother Ba, and looked at my sister and asked softly: "Don't just talk about me, how have you been these years, sister? We met, but I never had a chance to ask in person." After listening to my sister, she lowered her eyes, stared at the pear blossoms I had drawn on the table, and said lightly: "It's still the same!" When I heard it, I couldn't help blurting out: " Why can't you forget?" My sister stiffened, and after a long time, she said calmly: "If you want to forget, you must never forget!" I took a deep breath and said, "Why don't you cherish the person in front of you?" My sister suddenly looked up at me , I looked back at her, and we looked at each other for a while, she smiled sadly, turned her head, and said, "Although I don't hate him, I can't forgive him either! If he didn't send someone to Find out, then... how could... die?" My sister was choked up with sobs, her voice was trembling, and she didn't go any further.I sighed a long time, and argued weakly: "But he didn't mean it." But my sister refused to speak again.

I feel sad in my heart, I just feel that we people are like a mess, we can't figure it out no matter what, we all have our own obsessions, and we would rather guard alone than let them go.Even if the price is a lifetime of loneliness.After looking at my sister for a long time, I couldn't help picking up the pen again, and quietly drew a plant of Ou Shinan in full bloom. After I finished the painting, I felt that the sadness in my heart had vented a little. As soon as the ink was dry, Caiqin came in, and asked with a smile, "Miss, is the drawing finished?" I said with a smile, handed the pattern to Caiqin, and entered the main hall with my sister.

Concubine Liang took the pattern, looked at it and said: "This is pear blossom, but it is rare to see people embroider it on silk." The concubine smiled slightly and said: "I don't dare to be 'a beautiful sky, a noble spirit', a noble spirit, and a celestial talent." Then she looked at the next one, and said, "What kind of flower is this? I've never seen one." Only then did I realize it, and I cried out in my heart that it was not good.At that time, I only thought that the flower language of heather was "loneliness", and I drew it in a moment of emotional agitation. I forgot that it was a flower that grew in the wilderness of Scotland. I didn't think carefully about whether there is such a flower in China now.After being stunned for a while, he slowly replied: "This is a kind of rhododendron," thinking that heather belongs to Rhododendronaceae, so it is not a lie. "It's usually born on a cliff, and you can't usually see it. The servant girl also came to Beijing from the northwest, and I saw it once by chance." Concubine Liang nodded, looked at the pattern and said: "It has the charm of being independent from the world." After watching , looked at me with a smile and said: "He is really a person with seven apertures and exquisite heart!"

Seeing that I had got what I wanted, I asked Ann to leave. My sister smiled at me, and I smiled back.Then turn around and exit. Walking silently, I don't know whether it was intentional or not, I actually walked outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony, hiding in a corner, and staring at the door of the hall from afar.I don't know how long I stood there, the court was gone, officials big and small came out one after another, and saw a familiar figure in official robes slowly coming out, his body seemed to be thinner and thinner, but his demeanor was always graceful and graceful, Although I couldn't see his face clearly because of the distance, I felt that I could feel his smiling face and eyes without the slightest smile.

My mind was blank, I just watched him walk down the steps, and watched him walk across the square in front of the temple. Although there were other people around me, I just felt that he was so lonely. It fell on him, but it couldn't shine into his heart.Just like the heather on the Scottish wilderness, the surface is extremely gorgeous, but it cannot conceal the lonely soul. He suddenly stopped and turned his head to look in the direction where I was hiding.I was startled, and quickly withdrew my head, leaning my back against the wall, feeling my heart beating wildly.After a while, he finally couldn't hold back, and poked his head out again quietly, looking, but only saw his back.He gradually walked farther and farther, and slowly disappeared outside the gate. I couldn't help but trot along the side corridor of the white marble. Although the standing eunuchs and guards were a little surprised, they all knew who I was. Eye.

Considering that the Qing Dynasty stipulated that ministers of civil and military affairs would enter and exit the left door of the Meridian Gate on weekdays, while clan princes and princes would enter and exit through the right door.I ran to a high place along the shortcut, and looked behind the pillars. Sure enough, only the princes and elder brothers were walking on the right. walking. Gradually he arrived at the Meridian Gate, and before leaving the door, he suddenly stopped, turned back, and looked up at the direction where I was hiding.I stood close to the colonnade, with my head behind the pillar, motionless. After a while, when I poked my head out again, there was no one below, only the afternoon sun shining on the ground, white Reflected back, it hurt my eyes sharply.I stared down, with my back against the pillar, and slowly slipped and fell, sitting down on the ground. I lamented that my sister guarded her obsession and refused to let go, so why not myself?Wouldn't it be better if I hadn't kept in mind the final ending and had been braver?Wouldn't it be better if I was less introverted, less demanding, and more accepting of sharing a husband with other women?Would it be better if I were more simple and would simply believe that he loved me? A eunuch passed by me, saw me suddenly, was taken aback, and rushed to greet me, and I hurriedly stood up to tell him to get up.Only then did I gather my mind and walk back. As he was walking towards his residence, he saw that the figure walking in front of him looked like Elder Fourteen. He hurriedly walked a few steps, looked carefully, and it turned out to be him.called out.He turned around, saw it was me, stopped, waited for me to arrive, and said with a smile: "Shou Xing, where did you come from?" He said with a smile: "After the court, I went to say hello to my mother, and I was going to see you!" I gave a soft 'oh'. As the two walked, I casually asked, "Why didn't you spend more time with your concubine?" He didn't reply for a long time, and I couldn't help but wonder, is this question so difficult to answer?After a while, he said: "I won't hide it from you! I see that the fourth brother and the thirteenth brother are both there, so I didn't stay any longer." While thinking about it in my heart, I walked silently with him until we reached the courtyard.I said: "Wait! I'm going to move a small table and make you a pot of good tea today!" After I finished speaking, I entered the room, and he followed me to help me move the table, so I hurriedly pushed him out He said, "Hurry up and get out! It's fine if you are seen drinking tea! If you are seen moving the table at my place, that would be a big deal!" After hearing this, he had no choice but to back out again. I put the table under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, took two low chairs, a small stove next to it, and a purple sand tea set on the table.Looking at the open courtyard door, I thought it was better to leave it open.I fanned the palm-leaf fan to watch the fire, and Fourteen played with the tea set on the table, and asked, "It seems that you asked me to collect this tea set for you two years ago. I also specially asked someone to bring it from southern Fujian. I was still there Thinking that things in the south are different from ours, the teacup is so small, it only takes one mouthful. The teapot is only about the same size as the Sancai bowl commonly used in the palace." I smiled and said: "Yes! People in Fujian and Guangdong love to drink' Kung Fu tea', what you want is to taste it slowly in a small cup and spend time, so it is called Kung Fu tea." Seeing that the water boiled to the crab's eyes, he hurriedly picked up the pot, ironed the teapot, added tea leaves, poured water until it overflowed, and then the first cup of tea was only used to wash the cups, and the second cup of tea was really used for drinking. Guan Gong patrols the city' and then 'Han Xin orders troops'.After it was poured, I made a gesture of invitation, Shisi Yi picked up a glass with a smile, took a small sip, tasted it quietly for a while, then drank it all in one gulp, and said with a smile: "It's really bitter!" He also picked up a cup, drank it down, and said, "This is 'Dahongpao'. You usually drink green tea, and the taste should be lighter." Fourteen smiled, and took another cup to drink. I looked at him and asked, "Are you angry with the fourth prince because of what happened last time?" Fourteen eyes focused on the cup in his hand, and said, "It's not annoyance, but chilling!" I took a sip of tea slowly , He said: "At that time, Huang Ama wanted to kill me with a saber, and the first one who rushed up and hugged Huang Ama tightly was Fifth Brother." He said coldly, "Although Fifth Brother is Ninth Brother The elder brother of my mother's compatriots, but he usually doesn't interact with us. But just like this, he still cried and begged Emperor Ama to forgive me." He stopped, drank the tea, took a deep breath and said: "Fourth brother is my real brother. Although I played with mynah since I was a child, and I'm not close to him, but he...but he..." He stopped abruptly, not wanting to say any more.After being quiet for a while, he said again: "Mynah and he were sealed as Baylor back then, but now he is already a prince! No one can do better than him in seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages!" I was silent for a while and said: "But I heard that the fourth elder brother also knelt and begged for mercy." Fourteen shook his head and said, "Which elder brother didn't kneel later?" I really don't know what to say, they The heart knot between them has existed since childhood. There is one reason for the personality disagreement, one is flying and jumping, and the other is gloomy and uncertain.In addition, the two brothers did not grow up together. The fourth elder brother was raised by Empress Xiaocheng when he was a child. In the competition for the crown prince, the fourth elder brother has always stood by the prince's side, while the fourteenth has been following the eighth elder brother, plotting to abolish the prince, and the two brothers can only go further and further apart.As for the future, the two brothers will turn against each other directly for the throne.Thinking of this, he couldn't help sighing slightly.